Read this Poem and Keep it

Read this Poem and keep it, and with your Heart confide,

Or place amongst your wandering thoughts

Where wasted Dreams reside.

Keep within a locket, to wear and think of me,

Or safe inside all Billet-Doux

For we could never be.

Read this Poem and keep it, to read in years ahead,

Within all lines a hopeless Love,

But still by absence fed.

Read this Poem and keep it, by Ribbons you’d often wear,

Through years my Love endures,

This truth by God I swear.