(I promised I wouldn't say I loved her till we were face to face. This acrostic was my cheat on that. Acrostic? Read the first letter of each line down the page.) <br /> <br /> <br />I may not speak three words that tell all I feel for you: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Leaving me ball-and-chained in the race for your heart. <br /> <br />Or, if you will, hobbled and limping after you, <br /> <br />Virtually struck dumb by lack of other ways to say it: <br /> <br />Entirely at a loss for an alternative. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Yet, given chance and all that’s fair in love and war, <br /> <br />Our pact may be a little cheated with, <br /> <br />Under the seal of good intention. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Well, I must try it anyway and any way I can, <br /> <br />If sanity’s the thing I’d keep. <br /> <br />There is no other cure or medicine, <br /> <br />Help or remedy for what is bursting in me. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Ah, dear heart, be forgiving? <br /> <br />Lay law aside for now and <br /> <br />Let this poor heart have its say some way? <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />My Adrianna, who has cured so much in me, <br /> <br />You are the cause of this inflaming thought! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Help me, dearest one, to keep the pact <br /> <br />Every day until its term is ended. <br /> <br />And, if you will, forgive your servant, <br /> <br />Roy, who knows full well how much he <br /> <br />Trespasses upon your loving trust.<br /><br />Roy William Gotaas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/acrostic-declaration/
