Love Without Love

I saw this in my english textbook, and its now one of my faveorite poems. If you write poetry or read poems often, it will be easier to understand this one.

~*LoVe WiThOuT lOvE*~
  -by Luis Llorens Torres-

I love you, because in my thousand and one nights of dreams,
I never once dreamed of you.

I looked down paths that traveled from afar,
but it was never you i expected.
Suddenly I felt you flying through my soul in quick, lofty flight.

and, like the bird on its branches, land in my arms,
only to rest,
then fly off again.

be not like the romantic ones who, in love, set me on fire.
when you climb up my mansion,
enter so lightly, that as you enter,
the dog of my heart will not bark.