If You'r Ever Going to Love Me

This is one of my favourite poems:

IF YOU'RE EVER GOING TO LOVE ME
Author - Unknown
(It's in a little book called "The Pocket Treasury of Inspirational Verse"

If you're ever going to love me love me now,
while I can know
All the sweet and tender feelings which from real
affection flow.
Love me now, while I am living; do not wait till
I am gone
And then chisel it in marble - warm love words on
ice-cold stone.
If you've dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not
whisper them to me?
Don't you know 'twould make me happy and as glad
as glad could be?
If you wait till I am sleeping, ne'er to waken
here again,
There'll be walls of earth between us and I couldn't
hear you then.
If you knew someone was thirsting for a drop
of water sweet
Would you be so slow to bring it? Would you step
with laggard feet?
There are tender hearts all around us who are thirsting
for our love;
Why withhold from them what nature makes them
crave all else above?
I won't need your kind caresses when the grass grows
o'er my face;
I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low resting
place.
So, then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit,
Let me know it now while living; I can own and
treasure it.

Don't forget to tell someone today how much you love them.