Love Do Demand More From You Poem by Daleen Enslinstrydom

When we met you told me
something that I had never known before:
“My love for you
will demand everything
and more from you,
that you need to trust your heart to me,
without holding anything back.”

Love will demand endearment
and a understanding that goes far beyond the mind;
that goes to knowledge of another person’s heart

but love also does demand responsibility from you
and unity although people sometimes feel so separated
in the way that they think about things
and it’s in that time that you have got to believe
that love will heal all broken hearts.

Love does take time
and sometimes goes above and further
than human possibilities.

My love will demand
that you have got to understand my heart
and have compassion
when I do fail you
without holding my failures against me.

Love will sometimes break your heart
and leave you in misery
but love will never leave you
if you do prevail
and it will fill the emptiness
and longings of your heart.

My darling, love does need physical touch
and without it love will certainly perish.
Love does ask for much more than just friendship
and it has got to have everything
and demands all that you are.

My darling, love demands more
and it brings fulfilment and hope.