I Want To Die While You Hold Me

I want to die while you love me,

While yet you hold me fair,

While laughter lies upon my lips

And lights are in my hair.

i want to die while you love me.

I could not bear to see,

The glory of this perfect day,

Grow dim- or cease to be.

I want to die while you love me.

Oh! Who would care to live 

Till love has nothing more to ask, 

And nothing more to give.

I want to die while you love me,

And bear to that still bed

Your kisses, turbulent, unspent,

To warm me when I'm dead.

-Georgia Douglas Johnson