Amy Carmichael - So...

So...
So what if i love you,
For everything breaks -
This life gives then immediately takes
Over and over in a vicious charade
Of what we once loved in a different shade
Of meaning and colour and all in between,
Like who we made each other and what has once been.

Once upon a time when we were both young,
But those times are gone and now I am done
With childish things.

Time to put them away,
Time, and time enough to say
'I love you', 'I love you' - whatever that means
In all different times, in all different scenes.

Amy Carmichael

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/so-18/