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Autumn Leaves

volume 5 number 6

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Love Request

by Rose Stark

Love me tonight for
tomorrow I may not be
passion, endless the journey
for lust lost into oblivion.

Love me now for never
will I long for this world
more than the minute
before I count the last breath
and heave of my bosom.

Love me not too much
nor too little for much love
brings too much pain
and too little none.

Love me in a memory
in the future for a
single thought cannot
crease a brow if it is happy.

Love me not unless you
do know the love inside me.

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