You Need Not Envy Poem by Jan Struther

You Need Not Envy



YOU need not envy lovers who are never apart:
For not in the pin-point starry conflagration
Of touch or kiss
Deepest contentment is,
But in the memory of delight, and its anticipation-
The interstellar spaces of the heart.

Jan Struther
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: kiss,memory
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