I Love You Poem by G. Newton V. Chance

I love you with the fatal
fascination of the night-moth
to the flicker of the flame.

I love you like the heron
loves the fresh-mown, harrowed ground
with uprooted insects flitting,
in abundance, all around.

Like the cud of cattle loves
to chew the tender shoots and blades
of fresh grass sprouting underneath
the samaan tree's cool midday-shade.

I love you like the teak seed
craves the dark, moist, loamy clay;
with cotyledon stretching,
upward to the light of day.

My love, how can I say it.
I love you like the rain-fly,
when the rain and lightning calls,
madly wings and mates; to die.

I love you as the shadow
is lost without the body.
With an ardent love, I love you;

I love you, with all my life.

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