Loving You

Do you love me

I cannot say

Do I love thee

I'll know one day

Tell me this

Can you not see

What it is

You've done to me

I need your love

I need your care

Big Brother I love,

Are you still there

I claimed you friend

The day we met

Do you my brother

Love me yet

I hugged you this morning

"I love you" did say

You answered by turning

And walking away

It burned me once

It burned me twice

Is loving you

Now worth the price

I cannot say

I dare not see

What I learned today

I learned from thee

I wrote this poem about a friend that had become like a brother to me, and I always refered to him as my big brother. But one day, when I saw him outside and ran to give him a hug, he turned and walked away without a word. This crushed me so badly that I went inside in tears, fe3eling a lot like the weather outside at the time- drearry and stormy. Although things were later made right with that friend, the new view of love it created stayed with me.