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.
