Dearest Daisy.

Dearest Daisy, do you know

how in love with you I am?

Your pretty petals

scatter

across my floor like pearls

of distant pleasure.

You are my treasure,

   yet bound by earth

forever shall you be.

For ours is a secret love,

   let none behold what joys we’ve had.

So fleeting are those moments

   as I yearn for them the more.

Jealous Daisy, you demand

almost too much of me.

You tell me what we have is true,

yet hold your silence over us.

You are the loveliest, my Daisy,

your beauty stole my from my path.

At the moment that our eyes first met,

you ensnared me in your smile.

O so very innocent

   your flower does appear.

And though you are a weed

   I think

you mustn’t be to me.

Dearest Daisy,

in your grasp,

I fear I won’t be free.

O darling Daisy,

   can’t you see?

I think

   you’re poisoning

       me!