NaPoWriMo #10 Love

NaPoWriMo #10 -find a passage of text, preferably from an out-of-print book, and turn it into a poem. This process is appropriately called a found poem. The Academy of American Poets has a great article about the history of the found poem, with links to examples by TS Eliot and Charles Reznikoff.
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*LOVE

My soul had a thousand doubts,
Before life'd begun
Love increased a thousand times
When three became one.

My joy has a thousand stars,
All eyes they shone.
My heart began to blossom
My arrival sung.

My world has a thousand stars,
Day’s horizon one
They remain in my mind’s eye
When the night was done.

When a thousand days remained
Never thought of one
Shadows began to cloud o’er
The battle not won.

Your love has a thousand hearts,
Your body but one.
Love remained within my heart
When your day was done.

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This poem is based on my family and my parents. I was adopted into a home with love.
My found poem was too dark, and hopeless. I have found hope in the cycle of life and love.

My prompt:

LOVE

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

--F. W. Bourdillon

As found in The Ontario Readers; Second Book, T. Eaton Co., 1909
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