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# If I Cannot Love You
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/if-i-cannot-love-you/
- Published: 2015-07-22T15:33:39.000Z
- Updated: 2015-07-22T15:33:39.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: #Poetry, Oceans of Mine, #Love and Relationships

If I cannot love you  
I will love the trees;  
They do not judge my intensity.

If I cannot kiss you,  
I will kiss the clouds;  
They do not ask me to withhold my tears.

If I cannot touch you  
I will touch the sky;  
He does not fear the vibrations of my heart.

If I cannot lay with you  
I will lay with the earth;  
She does not restrain my release to her.

If I cannot scream with you  
I will scream with the world;  
My agony gets lost in the crowd.

If I cannot be with you  
I will just be with me;  
Silence asks nothing else of me.

But, if I cannot hold you  
I do not know what else to do.