Swear To Me, Said My Love

Swear to me, said my love, that you are mine:
Bring yourself to me outside my door and wait:
My lovers have come in numbers but they go,
I call for love that asks for nothing and gives all.
I am tired of the debits and credits of love,
I am tired of the vows of lovers,
I leave you as free as I ask to be myself.
Swear to me, said my love, that love is not a bond:
Love's body is for love's body, that is all,
Love's soul is for love's soul, that is all.
I give all for all, I bargain for nothing less,
And as much as you confer just so much you take away.
Come to me, said my love, for I am hungry and thirsty:
I am forbidden the gobetweens, I am forbidden the questions and answers:
Come to me whole, come unburdened, come,
Your body dreaming of my body, your soul dreaming of my soul,
Your full surrender for my full surrender completing the hour of joy:
Come in the fulness of harvests, come in the overflow of streams.
Come, said my love, come in the repeal of the law, come in the outrage of custom:
Our love is the love of revolt, our love is the rebel dream:
It is mellow and full like a tree heavy with fruit,
It is rank and wet like an earthplot ready with returns,
It is all of heaven meeting all of hell, sphering a new domain,
This love, said my love, of your body,
This love, said my love, of your soul:
This love, yours and mine, pulsing with fervent life,
Making amends for all the failed loves of the past.