Three Kisses

• Whenever we kiss,
• we kiss three times;
• Each one important,
• reciting it's own rhyme.
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• The first says, "I love you,"
• and so much more,
• For I can't even begin
• to describe what all for.
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• The next says, "I'll be there,
• whenever you call."
• To lean on, to listen,
• to save you from fall.
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• The last kiss has a longer,
• more permanent meaning;
• In case you might think
  
• the first is just fleeting.
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• It says, "I am all yours,
• until my very last ember
• Has faded cold,
• and we've seen our December."
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• These three kisses,
• though each one distinct,
• Will be and must be
• inexorably linked.
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• For together they come
• to describe the love
• I feel for you,
• given me from Above.