To My Lover

Because you love me,

You will find comfort in my arms

When the world outside shifts to dark.

I will kiss open your sealed eyes

When this earth becomes too vast for you to hold

And I will show you, so fearlessly, the wonderous beauty of this land.

Because you love me,

You will hold my heart and my soul

In the palms of your open hands.

I will be the butterfly wings, so fragile and

Sometimes weak

And you will be the body, holding me to sanity

And serenity.

Because you love me,

You will let me be the wind

And you will watch me soar, and sometimes fall.

I will be foolish, still

You will laugh and show me how to laugh

And you will pick me up, brush me off, and open your hands again.

Because I love you,

I will cradle your soul and your heart

And I will open your curtains and show you light.

You will let me be who I am

And although I will leap from your hands and journey,

Know that my heart has settled with you, and will forever be with you.

Because I love you,

I will be as patient as the sky

Waiting for you, my sun, to rise.

I will hold you like you hold me

Without strings or ropes or bells

And instead with a mutual agreement of togetherness.

Because I love you,

Because I love you,

Because

I

love

you