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Why is it so hard to speak of love?

You'd think that after all these years

Together, as the future nears

With warning of a call to go above,

We'd find it easy to share what we feel;

And yet these thoughts are seldom heard,

Their sentiments, a little word

Too often used for casual appeal

To raise an answer where the heart may be

Less passionate - less truly real -

Than what our silences conceal;

Our hearts secure from what the world can see,

But can't hear - and never will from those

Who know the truth, but keep it hid -

Our secret, one we know will live

Far longer than the gushing tweet or prose

Which pass for love, but vanish with the light.

Our love may not shout out loud

To draw attention from the crowd,

But its flam burns ever true and bright.

Brian Hick February 2014

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