POETRY | LOVE | REGRET

I Did Not Say It When

Say “I love you” when you have the chance; it may not come again

When first we met I might have said, “I will not love thee for thy life But for the rest of mine.”

Now that thou art gone I might say, “I will not love thee Till Death us do part But till it doth us rejoin,

“Through forever and to the end Of all the souls in all The worlds, and then Yet one night more.”

Though naught I might say Will bring relief, For I did not say it when.

© 1995 Steve Alexander