Love

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Written by Stewart Acuff

Sometimes I think
She must think I’m crazy
Burning up all this ink
Just to tell her over and over
How much I love her
I admit, I think the same of me
Seems to me, though, poetry
Is all that deep in your soul and heart
That has to get out
Turn into the closest thing I can get to art
So I write
And I won’t fight
To close off my soul and heart.

© Creative Commons Copyright 2012

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Stewart Acuff is America’s best-known and foremost labor organizer. He is the former organizing Director of the AFL-CIO. Acuff has also written two books: Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing, and Getting America Back to Work, coauthored by Dr. Richard Levins.