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Offering and Rebuff

I could love you

as dry roots love rain.

I could hold you

as branches in the wind

brandish petals.

Forgive me for speaking so soon.

 

Let your heart look

on white sea spray

and be lonely.

 

Love is a fool star.

 

You and a ring of stars

may mention my name

and then forget me.

 

Love is a fool star.

Written by
Carl Sandburg
1878-1967 / Male / American
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