How? Poem by Matthew Edan Oliver Palma

How shall I ever understand?
The way I feel when you’ 're at hand…
How can I ever comprehend?
The day I hoped up to the end

Sadly shall I take deceit
Yet gladly I will take defeat
As long as in your arms I’ 'l lie
Even for a million times I’ 'd die

How sweet are the smiles that part my lips
How true the words that cloud my mind
How happy the thoughts I leave behind
How strange the beauty in things I find

How can I share in a dagger'’ s blade?
How shall I keep in silence laid?
How should I love the pain of death?
How could I think of loving death?

Happily will I stay beneath
And joyfully I would bear the heat
As long as you are here with me
A completely understanding soul I’ 'd be

How can my tears be sweetest be?
How can this pain be my endless sea?
How can I ever understand?
Just how I feel when you’ re at hand…..


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