I Love You, Yet Not Poem by Maurice Harris

What will need be, in for your mind
To leave all you allege, finally behind?
You know better than to paint a picture, so fantastic-
Alas, you know deceit supplanting truth is tragic!

Why then, where truth is needed the most
Would you subvert the actual, in chase of a ghost?
Where be the lady to whom my heart doth belong-
What thee allowed, not what's meant by head-strong!

I love you, yet not do I want mine hand be forced-
My demands are stern, not as others, coerced!

Maurice Harris,18 June 2008