vis-à-vis love

Please allow me to list

some features of yours

deserving of a mention:

viz,

your lips, your eyes

your shapely thighs.

Do you follow my gist?

(There are others I’ve missed.)

Allow me to note

some personal flaws

I should bring to your attention:

viz,

my increasing size,

a predilection for lies,

though they stick in my throat .

I could catalogue

what I love about you

in the hope of redemption:

viz,

your smile, your charms

your money, my arms.

(Oh, I am such a dog!)

I would briefly relate

why you should

reciprocate:

viz,

my shining good looks,

my library of books.

(But have I left it too late?)

Wait! –

Before you walk away

please allow me to say

that between

you and me,

vis-à-vis love,

there could be

a passionate courting,

a wooing, resorting

to flowers,

chocolate, showers

of kisses,

an assault of the senses,

your crumbling defences,

champagne in the park,

fumbling after dark.

These are the ways I would love you:

namely,

gamely, madly.

Should you leave

I would grieve.

How would I beat my retreat?

Lamely, sadly.

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