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Love is patient, you are slow


Love is patient.

Love is patient.

Love is patient and that is a good thing, my love,

because you

Are slow.

 

I loved you when you had zits and braces,

And I will love you wrinkled and gray.

Your face isn't what I love you for,

but it would be nice if you would show

Show up, show your face

Instead you make me wait.

 

Love, you are late

A few years.

I told you where I was.

I've been here

Loving patient, loving slow

Loving from a distance.

Getting old.

 

I made my love known

To you

And you reciprocated

But you are slow and love is patient,

So I have waited.

 

Please come soon

With not another "on my way"

No more "not now"

Come as you are

Love, be here

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Comments (8)

Kimberly Jackson
Be there for the most important part of my life sufficient evidence that you will find the related forums for a good friend to be with each other
kybright3
<p>beautiful</p>
ccballi
<p>Thank you for the feedback!</p>
ccballi
<p>I'm glad! Thank you</p>
MVP-Most Valuable Poet
<p>enjoy the simplicity and honesty of this poem</p><p>keep building off your creative mind</p>
themantha21
Love it!
ccballi
<p>Thanks for reading and for your response! I'm so glad you got enjoyment out of it. :)</p>
emiltee
<p>This is seriously beautiful! It's probably way more heart wrenching for me than it has any right to be, just wow.</p>

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