For Love

You wanted to share my life; 
time kept you from my past; the future hasn't come yet; 
today is just for laughs.

Sometimes I know I bored you,

and other times ignored you.

You know how I felt toward you.

But to say I wanted no one but you would not be true.

I auditioned my actors, and you weren't in the cast.

Fitting out my clipper life replaced you with a mast.

You know that I adored you.

But once I had explored you,

I just could not afford you.

Many a man has decayed and gone to bugs – but not for love.


-- Duane Vorhees