©2007 M. Bennett Hooper

I need you and you need me and together we need something

that we shall never find in each other but we have love.

You need strength and I am your great weakness.

I need a secluded villa by the sea or ocean

And you are poor but we have love.

You need constant attention.

I require solitude in which to grow

Your eyes say forever but we have love.

You need me alone, and I need many to distract me

From the loneliness your require

But we have love.

You have accepted a certain serenity with satisfaction

I find few thing satisfying save tomorrow

But we have love.

I no longer crave the things I cannot have

I now enjoy and appreciate my existence, my life

And I have loves.