I want to love you the way a glacier drags

Slow and steady and long and forever.

Understand,

I do not love you any less for my tortoise speed

Chewing a hundred and one times before swallowing.

It's just the way I love

Polishing my heart with every beat

Checking for divots and bumps, imperfections that may be

I need to be sure of our longevity, of our sincerity 

Because of the way I love.