U know

If questioning would make us wise

no eyes would ever gaze in eyes;

if all our tale here told in speech

no mouths wander each to each.

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Were spirits free form mortal mesh

and love not bound in hearts of flesh

no aching breasts would yearn to meet

and find their ecstasy complete.

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For who is there that lives and knows

the secret powers by which he grows?

Were knowledge all, what were out need

to thrill and fait and sweetly bleed?

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Then seek not, sweet, the "if" and "why"

I love you now watil I die

for I must love because I live

an life in me is what you give.

-Christopher Brennan