Tuesday, June 22, 2010

I Want to Die While You Love Me

I Want to Die While You Love Me

I want to die while you love me
While yet you hold me fair,
While laughter lies upon my lips
And lights are in my hair.

I want to die while you love me,
And bear to that still bed
Your kisses turbulent, unspent,
To warm me when I'm dead.

I want to die while you love me,
Oh, who could care to live
Till love has nothing more to ask
And nothing more to give?

I want to die while you love me,
And never, never see
The glory of this perfect day
Grow dim or cease to be!

~ Georgia Douglas Johnson

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