I wish to bend your smiles so as better <br />To ease my truth. <br />I had lost the form of loving <br />When you last battled my love with yours. <br /> <br />Happiness is a coupling of love, <br />Now a breaking of our tides <br />I wish I had power to love you <br />For that’s where happiness lies. <br /> <br />You may tear apart your letters <br />As better forms of truth <br />You may tear apart my will <br />But my soul can never love you. <br /> <br />You may shout and answer <br />And force my temperament on you <br />With steady violence and accord <br />You may even hold me true—this I’ll let you do. <br /> <br />I could touch your tears and kiss <br />Again your paling mask of man’s defeat— <br />I could touch your curls and wonder <br />If it’s in this that true love breeds. <br /> <br />But behind the passion of something lost <br />I find myself in you <br />I mirror my face with yours <br />In level and in truth <br /> <br />And repeat the words of fate: <br />I honestly can never love you.<br /><br />Masiela Lusha<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-cannot-love-you-honestly/
