Let the poets stretch the truth
as they try to stretch the imagination.
“Face that launched a thousand ships”
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
“Beauty and Love are like body and soul”
They ring false and cannot be true,
because none of them ever saw you.
You warm my heart, and excite my soul,
causing me to see with more than eyes
a beauty they could never truly extol
far lovelier than their lies.