Join the Neopoet online poetry workshop and community to improve as a writer, meet fellow poets, and showcase your work. Sign up, submit your poetry, and get started.
Dec 10, 2008
⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)
How long will this go on?
How long will this go on -
this seeing you as young?
You must have wrinkles now,
but I don't notice them.
To me, your skin is just as smooth
as on the day when we first touched;
and though I know your hair is dyed,
such thoughts don't cross my mind,
when I comb it with my fingers
and glance at you and smile.
So at last I understand
when people say that love is blind.
Perhaps I'll never see your age!
Unluckily, you may see mine!
this seeing you as young?
You must have wrinkles now,
but I don't notice them.
To me, your skin is just as smooth
as on the day when we first touched;
and though I know your hair is dyed,
such thoughts don't cross my mind,
when I comb it with my fingers
and glance at you and smile.
So at last I understand
when people say that love is blind.
Perhaps I'll never see your age!
Unluckily, you may see mine!
— Robert Melliard, Dec 10, 2008
Share this poem
Critiques
Linda Moses
17 years 6 months ago
Robert
Robert Melliard
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Linda,
jean-louis bouzou
17 years 6 months ago
You see her with love
Robert Melliard
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Jean-Louis,
jean-louis bouzou
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Robert,I’m not an
Robert Melliard
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Jean-Louis,
Rett
17 years 6 months ago
That thought expresses it well
Robert Melliard
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Rett,
Janice Pearce
17 years 6 months ago
How long will this go on?
Robert Melliard
17 years 6 months ago
Hi Janice,