But I Need Your Love Poem by Leslie Alexis

As tall as the tallest mountain is my love for thee.
If it were to become water the world would drown.
But standing as is, it does not wet the soul of thy feet,
and as a sea it can wrap the world ten times around.
A single strand of your hair it cannot cover.
To what you deserve, every mountain is a mound,
every garden is a flower, every bird is a feather,
every tree is a leaf, and song, long or brief, a sound
no different than that of a stone fallen from high.
You do not need to comply to anyone earthbound.
From his youth Apollo has saved his heart for thee
And on thee Eros has his aim; Zeus has made the crown,
but on every woo they were told to keep their name.
I am puzzled as to how what is sought in me was found.
Even so, I need thy love, and to thee my heart is bound.

Copyright © 2010 Leslie Alexis