Saved in rhyme

Those who need love most
find it hardest to receive it
and those who seek the truth
find it hardest to believe it
those who live by taking
are in for a course in giving
and those who are afraid to die
are at heart afraid of living

       and I understand you best
       when you sit there smiling
       and your eyes quite suddenly
       give me their secret sign
       I don't know how to treasure this enough
       I don't know how to save it for all time
       except in rhyme
       saved in rhyme

those who see too much
understand perhaps too little
their brains are tough and rough
but their hearts perhaps too brittle
those who paint by numbers
never really get the picture
those who know all formulas
may not get to taste the mixture

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1993.