Conviction   

I shall love you without exhaust 

Holding tight, no mind for cost  

Even to fake a million smiles  

Or to converse in awkward styles  

But may I leave their dire advice  

Such disrespect – they ponder twice  

For I have been painted anew  

My art doth bear a hidden clue  

And time with him- a stage to pace  

For affluence, can’t rich a face  

I catch my very breath - too far  

To only I know where you are  

Aflutter is a dismayed thing  

Upon a lost and troubled wing  

But I will rest my way with ease  

Our past has left great dreams to tease  

He tries to fill my lack of you  

I turn away, remaining true  

Waiting amidst this fall of failure  

May winter bring your tardy valor  

Upon the winding path, for me  

You are not there but there I see  

Oh love! Come fill this man I trust  

With flesh and bones and needing us  

Though winter passes bitter and bare  

Spring shall be biased  

And summer, fair

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