Your sweet love makes me sweet …

Your deeds show your love
My sweet lover – you own me
There is nothing left to do or say
Resistance is futile
Love demands this sweet – Master
And I, God help me, I do too
When I think how mad it would be
To resist a lover as kind as you

I want to find in your steel
Your strength, something that will last
As long as this love that I feel
Look at you: Beauty… grace…truth
You are more than all of this
And I… never thought I could have this
Oh I know it would be mad of me
To resist a lover as kind as you

You can be the man about town
But oh love – no games
Fly straight – no lies
I’m so taken by you and you’ve taken me
By all your sweet charms – your peace
And those honey eyes so true, so blue
Oh it would just be crazy of me
To resist a lover as kind as you

Sweet love – heart of my heart
I tell the whole world about you
Oh I would just have to be crazy
To resist a lover as kind as you.

Christine De Pisan, 1364 - 1430
After the translation by, Charles Martin & Johanna Keller