For Tory
by cricketjeff on May 4, 2008. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
While Tory was very weak and drifting in and out of consciousness I was writing
things for her Nurse to read to her, being me it drifted into rhyme, including
most of “The perfect Rose of Texas” which I posted yesterday. She asked my to
post these too, which are from the same series
The telephone that carries all the love you want to say
Is the instrument of pleasure that will sweep the miles away
It isn’t all that perfect but it works for you and me
And it also is the way I say “love you” in poetry
I send my love in so words so few
That do the job they have to do
I want to know they’re working too
The words I send are
I
Love
You
The way you write and play with form
The way you keep your loving warm
The way you whoop it up a storm
Is lovely
The way you keep your friends so near
The way you bring the whole would cheer
The way you try to chase off fear
Is lovely
The love that I will send to you
The love I know that you feel too
The love that tells us what to do
Is Lovely
English