I, Lover

Fotografia de Leonardo Sanches

 

I shall never have any fear of love, 

Not of its depth nor its uttermost height,

Its exquisite pain and its terrible delight.

I shall never have any fear of love.

I shall never hesitate to go down

Into the fastness of its abyss

Nor shrink from the cruelty of its awful kiss.

I shall never have any fear of love.

Never shall I dread love’s strength

Nor any pain it might give.

Through all the years I may live

I shall never have any fear of love.

I shall never draw back from love

Through fear of its vast pain

But build joy of it and count it again.

I shall never have any fear of love.

I shall never tremble nor flinch

From love’s moulding touch:

I have loved too terribly and too much

Ever to have any fear of love.

Elsa Gidlow