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[Note from Jon Corelis: after writing this poem I decided to use it as lyrics for a song of my own composition. It hasn't gotten performed yet, but the software generated demo audio file (using "ah" sounds for the vocal, since I don't have a decent voice simulator,) on YouTube will give some idea of what a performance would sound like.]

Love

They say that love is only
a yearning of the flesh,
and needs the body's lonely
hunger to keep fresh,

but I, too often choosing
to keep the two apart,
have learned to my own losing
that love is of the heart.

The body's deprivation
is fed on what it takes;
the heart finds satiation
in every gift it makes:

the body rues its giving;
the heart has no regrets,
but keeps forever living
what faded flesh forgets.

lovesongrhyme

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