Write me a poem, dearly beloved, <br />Write of your love, your fidelity, your proclivity <br />For doing what is right for me, not what is right; <br />Speak to me of what you feel <br />Not sugared words served on pity tarts <br />Write me a poem, dearly beloved, <br />If you cannot, then contend to break my heart. <br /> <br />Write me a prose, dearly beloved, <br />Then narrate it on an elevated stand <br />To the heavens and the sea and whatever lies betwixt <br />The shadows of both so that all can hear; <br />Speak only truth for I cannot stomach lies of such art <br />Write me a prose, dearly beloved, <br />If you cannot, then contend to break my heart. <br /> <br />Write me a sonnet, dearly beloved <br />And sing it by the edge of the fast flowing stream <br />Sing to me as if you sang to all the forest <br />And called forth its life from the concealing leaves of jade <br />And of this assembly of the innocent, I shall be an active part <br />So write me a sonnet, dearly beloved, <br />If you cannot, then contend to break my heart.<br /><br />Samah Khan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dearly-beloved-write-to-me/
