Poem To A Girlfriend

Don't forward it until u've read it all - The Brat 1. The more I think of you, the more I 2. Love you; I cannot see how any one could 3. Hate you. You have always been to me an 4. honest, faithful friend, and I hope my love is not an 5. Object of contempt. It is true that Once I said 6. I would never marry, but that was before 7. I loved you. That assertion you know was 8. uttered in a bragging manner, in fact not but 9. a lie, and I do not know why I made it. If I 10. could even pluck up enough courage to 11. offer you my hand I know very well you 12 would be surprised and I doubt if you 13 would accept it. I do not think I would 14 listen to a refusal from your lips and 15 thus make my whole life miserable. To die 16 without ever expressing my love for you 17 would be preferable to that. If you write to me 18 I shall be happy, but if you do not 19 I shall be miserable and gloomy, your letters 20 are a source of pleasure and a failure to get them 21 always make me feel like committing suicide. NOW READ THIS POEM AGAIN... BUT ONLY THE ODD NUMBERED LINES