A Calmer Love

I would not say I love you,
save I truly believed.
But let me define for you
love:
        It exists
        as impetus inside us all.
        For love comes from nowhere
        yet touches us all.
        And as I touch my love
        to you,
        it is yet a different
        breath which you breathe!

Yes, I could love you
as no one before,
and take you as my wife
        to live with me
        and bear our future-

But rather
would I conceive a calmer,
less elevated love
between us.
Rather would I sink into your eyes
and touch your soul
        with mine,
than to travel to your heart!