My Love Is Both a Hunger and a Giving

Music: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 1. By J.S. Bach. Sequencer unknown. Modified by David Grossman. Subscribe to this site on Substack Subscribe to this site on YouTube Subscribe to this site on Medium

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My love is both a hunger and a giving, A need to have and also to bestow, A lavish lust for flesh and yet a yearning For beauty as austere as polished stone. I want more than my life your happiness, And yet my happiness depends on you. Like a child I linger in your shadow While like a parent I take you in my arms. I want to be the sun to fill your sky While like a rose I open to your smile. I want to be the air you breathe, your music, While like the sand I wait upon your sea. So like and unlike, my love is doubly bonded, The joys of giving and receiving joined. This day of love it is my gift to you, A heart you can consume yet keep forever.