Alicia

I do not feel the deep things I once did,
But do much deeper things than I ever could.
I loved with passion my black Labrador,
But loved with deed my Yorkshire Terrier.
Youth's yens are gone, and the deep sway
Of infatuation is quenched for a holy fire
Of some deep swelling kindness and recognition
Of another's feelings and needs over my own.
I do not feel love, like I once did, and am not maddened by it
But I do love more now than I ever have in my entire life.
It is a cold spring, rather than a hot mineral water.