User:Mikoshi/poetry/Sonnet 5

Sonnet 5

Do other creatures fall in love like this?

Even the bugs have to find another,

And snakes and scorpions feel childhood bliss,

Returning to mate; to be a mother.

Except they are diff'rent; they have no soul,

Meaning surely they cannot be in love.

My feelings have not a faunal equal

And are as pure and potent as the dove.

Why, then, did we name a creature lovebird,

As it cannot feel love the way I do?

This animal has no measure, no word,

So it is less than my feelings for you.

O, you mean more than the beasts of the Earth:

Nature has ne'er seen such love of this worth.