Love by ambition
Of definition
Suffers partition
And cannot go
From yes to no
For no is not love; no is no
The shutting of a door
The tightening jaw
A conscious sorrow;
And saying yes
Turns love into success,
Views from the rail
Of land and happiness.
Assured of all
The sofas creak
And were this all, love were
But cheek to cheek
And dear to dear.
Voices explain
Lovers pleasure and lovers pain,
Still tap the knee
And cannot disagree,
Hushed for aggression
Of full confession.
Likeness to likeness
Of each old weakness;
Love is not there
Love has moved to another chair.
Aware already
Of who stands next
And is not vexed
And is not giddy.
Leaves the North in place
With a good grace
And would not gather
Another to another,
Designs his own unhappiness
Foretells his own death and is faithless.