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I Do Not Love You

I do not love you

Except that you are loved by somebody else

I do not love you

Nor do I love myself

Or love, love

And so I do not love you

Or me

Or somebody else

Therefore I go 'unloved'

Into a limping world

Full of all possibilites of

Pain

There in that gallery of tortured faces

Strangers on a train

Shoulders scraping past

Like a field full of unloved sheep

I go unloved into the menagerie of loveless birds

Without a song

Nameless in unbelonging

Forgotten traces of a life

I trudge amidst the wreck and ruin

Of a vacant heart

Not because you do not love me

Nor because of somebody else

Who may or may not, hide a sweet affection for me

Somewhere, (hidden)

Secretly named love

Nor in a hot clime

or under a cool sky

Winter displeases me, not!

Nor summer neither

Love is not on th cards

Not up for debate

Not waiting in the wings

Nor prompting with a cue card

I love you not for any reason

Other than I forgot

The beginning of the line

But if you should forget me,

I would have forgotten first

That bud that never sprung

That bird dried out of song

And stuffed sitting on my sofa

Like my mother in law

(Joke)

So you loved me not

I know not who or why

you loved somebody else

And where I came into the equation

So let's leave it at that eh?

poem by Yvette Smith
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