Different Love

Different Love

Strange, Red Man - London, England. ©2016 Meredith L. McGuire McConn

You may know so many things, be attuned to my mind...
But do you know the depths of love?

Why stop a feeling that is so kind?
Why stop a lover's heart?

Why end a love before its time
When it's barely had time to start?

What river's course would you dare tame
When all of life survives therewith?

So, why, when love behaves the same
Would your heart leave and claim the Fifth?

I love, and love, and love again
And not but one has dared to claim

My heart as deeply as he has,
Though I and he've not come to pass...

And, what on earth's a girl to do
When I love others differently than I love you?