Infatuation Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Do not love me as I am.
If you can not embrace to face,
Life to live is a process that evolves.
And everything we are,
Undergoes changes to be made.
Changes made to accept and not delay.
If it is love for me you feel,
Let us both allow time to make it real.

Do not love me as I am.
Love me for my ability to be able to grow.
With a mind willing to comprehend,
That which I understand today to know...
Will not stay the same as it is tomorrow.
And a keeping what it is that you feel for me,
May be more an infatuation.
To leave me wondering about your love.

And I am not the one to commit,
To a feeling you can excuse...
As something you felt,
But came to realize did not for you really exist.