How Do I Love Me?

How Do I Love Me?

A  How do I love me let me count the ways?

B  Like a soothing wind that gently sings,

B  Like Comorants sailing above the Caspian Sea,

A  Like butterflies on a summer day,

A  Or graceful trees on a winter day.

B  Like a peaceful night that always brings

B  Rest and energy during the Spring,

A  Like the genius behind Shakespeare’s plays,

C  That still inspire  us 400 years after,

A  And make us appreciate Elizabethan ways,

C  The puns that elicit so much laughter.

I value the pleasure of risk and chance.

And move through this day like a graceful dance.

(with a nod to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)