A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Thursday, November 02, 2017

the suit

there's no end to the woo
I would pitch at you, if
you were as free as I

if I were to say I would not
want you
as a conquest,
then I would lie.

I do not want you
as a thing to steal,
but to win you
for hearth and home

after many campaigns of peace
we'd wage, together
for each and own.

Not as a thief,
to steal away,
but a suitor whose case
is true

Not for tonight,
not for today, but for life
to look forward to.

I'd give up a lifetime
of stolen goods
for what you'd be free
to give

As free as I am.
And as you are not,
I shall be content
to live.

1 comment:

dogimo said...

Almost called this "the frivolous suit"