What do you think?

Question:

What do you think?

I'm not sure, but I may have posted this before ... but tell me what you think.

Love abounds

Always the lover,
Never the loved.
Always the bridesmaid,
Never the bride.
Love abounds in every sphere;
Everything bursts with its sweetness,
And I can??t help but notice.

Always the lover,
Never the loved.
Always the bridesmaid,
Never the bride.
Jealousy is vicious;
Everything rots with its poison,
And I can??t help but suffer.

Always the lover,
Never the loved.
Always the bridesmaid,
Never the bride.
The flower girl before me,
Dropping petals on the floor,
And I can??t help but crush them.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Fantastic. Love it.

The lines that especially work for me are:

Love abounds in every sphere;
Everything bursts with its sweetness,

and the absolutely perfect ending (your ending was perfect. I live for endings like those).

Dropping petals on the floor,
And I can??t help but crush them.

I was actually counting your syllables on your sixth line--very well done.

Finally, let me share with you a poem this reminded me of. I don't know if you've read anything by Louise Gluck, but here is her poem "Mock Orange".

It is not the moon, I tell you.
It is these flowers
lighting the yard.

I hate them.
I hate them as I hate sex,
the man's mouth
sealing my mouth, the man's
paralyzing body--

and the cry that always escapes,
the low, humiliating
premise of union--

In my mind tonight
I hear the question and pursuing answer
fused in one sound
that mounts and mounts and then
is split into the old selves,
the tired antagonisms. Do you see?
We were made fools of.
And the scent of mock orange
drifts through the window.

How can I rest?
How can I be content
while there is still
that odor in the world?

--Louise Gluck

Edit: (oh, and as an aside, I have hard time believing the refrain)