Sonnet Vi

I walk away because I love you so; I go because I long too much to stay beside you, O, my love, from day to day, to watch with you from dawn to sunset's glow. I would my love did round about you flow-- that all your kindnesses I might repay-- as freely as a river toward the bay, that I might lose myself in you and show how truly I do love you. Within thee I find much deeper, richer grows my soul; I am not lost in losing all. Empty would I be, lost in you beyond control; for there I find my peace, my surety, kept safe within the ocean of your soul. Faye Lanham Gibson Copyright, 1987