Please Don’t Speak of Love

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
~ Love Song of Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot
Please don’t speak of love
as isolated as can be.
How terribly lonely you sound to me!
Please don’t speak of love
endured and unrequited.
Please don’t speak of love
when the love song
has not been written.
Please don’t speak of love
with words carried across the sea.
Please don’t speak of love
until it is returned
to me.

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