I am in doubt

U. Smith

I'll love you until stars fall.

Can it be so sure, so lasting as my heart demands

of one whose slightest touch upon my hands

is like the wind inside an aspen tree?

I am in doubt of this frail thing

I hold so sworn to constancy

And this is why, why,

Too often I have watched a burnt blue sky

Where slipping stars spilled scarlet

and grew cold.