Love Poem: If Poesy Be Love
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Written by: Ngoc Nguyen

If Poesy Be Love

If Poesy be love, then I be Cupid:
     for through poems like mine darlings are ablaze
with passion; and hearts once dull grow pellucid,
     to never again hide in a lovers' haze.
      
If Poesy be wealth, then I be rich:
     for I, now like a king of immense treasure,
am but a pauper who has found his niche,
     a realm and kingdom of rhythm and measure.

If Poesy be health, then I be well:
     no invalid, but a bard whose high time
nears, whose destiny only God can tell;
     till then, I faithfully live by every rhyme!
 
So, if God and Poesy be absolving,
then I, at last, am content and evolving.