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Do Not Ask Of Me!
How can I love you?
How can I not?
Ask me instead
How I can possibly
Squint toward
The sun
Or stare at
The moon
Or lend an ear to
The rain
Or tiptoe through
The snow
Or wonder under
The butterfly
Or bumble around
The bee...
...But account for how
I can love you?
Do not ask of me!
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"
My Poetic Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: This poem was inspired by Adam, my sister-in-law's coworker and friend. And she tried to "matchmake" the Adam and I! You see, he and I dated for a while and he asked me once, "How can you love me?"
So, I answered him with this poem.
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Salt Lake City, Utah.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 037 was edited on September 19th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
