Smitten

[Tiger the Lion]

Smitten

Strike me dead
if I don't love you
more than sense suggests,

a trillionfold more
than two heartbeats ago
and much too much
for a jealous God to condone.

Strike me dead
if eternity ceases to be

a private joke
between you and me.

Did you strike a final "Strike me dead" from this poem?  Or was I hallucinating last night when I first read it.  I miss it if you did.

TqB

No. You're not hallucinating. I struck the last strike and changed you and I to you and me. I thought the end rhyme tied it up nicely. Maybe not.