POETRY | LOVE | REGRET

I Did Not Say It When

Say “I love you” when you have the chance; it may not come again

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When first we met
I might have said,
“I will not love thee for thy life
But for the rest of mine.”

Now that thou art gone
I might say,
“I will not love thee
Till Death us do part
But till it doth us rejoin,

“Through forever and to the end
Of all the souls in all
The worlds, and then
Yet one night more.”

Though naught
I might say
Will bring relief,
For I did not say it when.

© 1995 Steve Alexander