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# Still True
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/still-true-tho-singed-and-lost-within-the-smoke-of-recent-fires/
- Published: 2016-11-19T09:49:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-06T17:21:22.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Longing and Desire

### (tho singed and lost within the smoke of recent fires)

I love you  
  
I know I say it all the time,  
(I love you)  
but I do  
  
I love your smile, and  
the way your head tilts back  
when you get self-conscious,  
when you want my lips to drink your neck,  
when you want my teeth sunk in your skin,  
when you want my heart, my flesh, and then...  
  
(I love you)  
I love your eyes:  
cinnamon stones sparkling amidst silken skin,  
hanging flecks of perfection  
singing to my poet's soul again and again...  
  
I love your shyly-arrogant laugh:  
full of knowledge, edged with pain  
(I love you),  
tainted with the uncertainty of your certainty  
of your endless days  
  
I love you  
  
I love you for your brilliant mind  
that you, nonetheless, restrain;  
that you, from mistakes, disdain;  
that you, come disheartened companions, refrain  
  
I love you  
  
I love you  
  
I love you;  
for your beauty is forever,  
for your heart is ever pure,  
for your love is as helpless as mine,  
for your body always wants mine  
  
I love you;  
and it lasts  
through time and space,  
through trials and frustrations,  
through foreverness and vulnerabilities...  
  
I love you  
  
I always have  
I always do  
  
And, oh, how I miss you...!