Sonnet Vi
I walk away because I love you so;
I go because I long too much to stay
beside you, O, my love, from day to day,
to watch with you from dawn to sunset's glow.
I would my love did round about you flow--
that all your kindnesses I might repay--
as freely as a river toward the bay,
that I might lose myself in you and show
how truly I do love you. Within thee
I find much deeper, richer grows my soul;
I am not lost in losing all. Empty
would I be, lost in you beyond control;
for there I find my peace, my surety,
kept safe within the ocean of your soul.
Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, 1987
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