Do not fall in love with women
Do not fall in love with their hair
nor
what clothes she wearDo not fall in love with her beautiful face
nor
her words of graceDo not fall in love with their eyes
nor
her sweetest of sighsDo not fall in love with their hands
nor
the way she standsNot even her most angelic of laughs
whose sounds you can listen to forever
Do not fall in love with herDo not fall in love with the woman you meet
Because chances are
The woman you meet today
won't be the same woman you greet tomorrowBut if you must
Fall in lovefall in love with the girl she was before you met her
and
Love the lady she'll become now that she has met youFor any fool can fall in love
And a wise man will be willing to wait
But
the real secret
to love
is
StayingStaying in love
because any fool can fall
And the wise can wait for eternity
But it takes a good man
to Stayeven after the flames of passion has extinguished
and the luster of romance fadedFor love is not defined by how you found it
nor even how you earned it
Love is defined on how you choose to end itDo not be a man who falls in love
Be the man who stays in love
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The Other ways to say "I love you"
PoetryA Collection of Free Verse poems inspired by the one I love, the one I lost and the one I will never meet.