To earn your real respect I do desire;
Respect, encircling love, uplifts it higher,
Strengthens heart and soul more firm and true,
And that, my dear, is what i seek from you.
Intoxication, yes, it blinded me,
Though glad was I to love with such a joy.
Still strong is all my love inside of me,
Though I be now more man and less hot boy.
Oh, hard it is to mix this half and half,
But I will blend in one, my love, for you.
Then may you smile on me and laugh your laugh,
Whene’er I trip, as climbers sometimes do.
I will step high with positives most gay
And kick dull negativity away!