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# The Muse
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/the-muse/
- Published: 2016-11-04T00:14:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-19T00:01:46.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Longing and Desire, #Art and Beauty, #26

> “The trouble with a muse,”  
> (my dear friend said)  
> “is that one cannot control it.”

I am bound by the aches and pains,  
By the emptiness and the questions that remain  
In the absence and the silence of this reign  
Of my forever-love-affair with you  
  
I am bound to find the answers that may hide,  
To bear the passion and the weakness of our tide,  
The forever pull of being at your side  
In my forever-love-affair with you  
  
I wonder sometimes: If you loved me true,  
If your sad heart could calm its changing hue,  
If your mind's eye could see, at last, its due,  
If your dear soul could finally renew  
In your forever-punishment of you  
Would we, at last, unlock the clues  
To a forever-life of me-and-you?  
  
But, who am I to ask of you to shift  
When all we are has led us to this rift  
Where our hearts hold fast and souls can freely drift  
Amidst this waning love affair with you?