My Love
My love has hair
Like midnight,
But midnight fades to dawn.
My love has eyes
Like starlight,
But starlight fades in morn.
My love has a voice
Like dew-fall,
But dew-fall dies at a breath.
My love has love
Like life’s all,
But life’s all fades in death.
This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on June 18, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.