One of the best  poem of love  wrote by Ted Hughes



Love Song

He loved her and she loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains

Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her heart so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His worlds were occupying armies
Her laughts ere an assasins'es attemps
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
Her glances were ghosts in the corner with horribles secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promisses were the surgeon's gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows puled out all her sinews
He should her how to make a love-knot
Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall


Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop

In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage


In the morning they wore each other's face