Moonshine
To think
I must be alone:
To love
We must be together.
I think I love you
When I’m alone
More than I think of you
When we’re together.
I cannot think
Without loving
Or love
Without thinking.
Alone I love
To think of us together:
Together I think
I’d love to be alone. .
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by Richard Murphy
from Collected Poems
Publisher: The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 2000
from Collected Poems
Publisher: The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, 2000