Be truly kind

I beg you please, to be truly kind
and if you have to go away
stop besieging me with an inconsistent mind
and in the going away then stay

from vexing me with things to which love belongs
and let everything between us then end
before hitting me with the worst of wrongs
and I on your mercy have to depend

and then let your love nevermore be mine
even if you do this in mistake
and let from you I then any offer decline
and nothing more from your generosity take:

If you truly love me let me know,
if not then let me go.

[Reference: Sonnet 92 “But do thy worst to steal thyself away” by William Shakespeare.}

poem by Gert Strydom
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