Walking Down My Shadows Vol. 2 by Gwynn Morgan

Walking Down My Shadows Vol. 2 What kind of young woman grows up to be a romance writer? Perhaps one who has spent a lifetime obsessed with love and romance! From the age of twelve, Gwynn Morgan went through the normal multitude of teenage crushes, puppy love and gradually grew into more mature attachments. What was perhaps less typical was the fact she recorded all of them in the form of verses, about her feelings and the objects of her affections. Gwynn refers to this collection as her autobiography in verse and in many ways it is, at least in terms of the amorous adventures and the angst and delight that each brought into her life. Highly emotional and personal, the poems are also universal, for there are few among us who have not loved both unwisely and too well.

Excerpt:

If This Be Love (1-10-80)

If what I feel is 'love'
Would I then still doubt;
And if that love were real
Could I not work out
The hesitation that
Has gripped me for a year;
Could I not cease to ask,
To wonder and to fear?
If what you feel be 'love'
Would it not be so plain
As to cut through any doubt
And erase all guilt and pain?
And would you not be brave
Enough to speak aloud
As well as meet my eyes
Across the room, the crowd?
If what we share is love
Could we not defy
All that now lies between
Forcing us to deny?
And would we still refrain
To reach, to stretch, to touch
In spite of everything
Needing to share so much?
But if it is not love
Why do I care this way,
Thirsting for your smile,
Needing you more each day?
And why are your eyes so warm
And your concern so real-
If it is not love
Then what is it we feel?