Do you love me now
Just the way I am?
Will you love me tomorrow
If I stay like I am?
Don’t.
Don’t love me then
For I would change
What then would you do
When familiarity escapes?
When things won't be
All hunky dory
And rosy
And mushy.
I know I would change,
And so would you.
And I'm fine.
Are you willing to risk?
We may grow,
Or outgrow.
Are you willing
To see if it ticks
Despite the change?
Will you be by my side
Knowing, that tomorrow
Won’t be the same?
I came across this beautiful William Somerset Maugham quote as a new year's greeting:
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.