How I Love You

How you long to hear them and how I long to say

How do these words within me always slowly slip away

I try to speak my feelings as simply as can be

But simple isn't easy when you're seeing all I see

How you truly are amazing, the goddess of my dreams

Even if you think I've stretched your beauty to extremes

I assure you in my eyes your as perfect as you sound

Somehow with every perfect piece you manage to astound

The things I've mentioned here are only just  the start

I wish to write two thousand lines for each and every part



Your eyes are ever stunning, you must hear that all the time

But I can not leave unsaid that they always look sublime

And the way they make me wander as they pierce me with a look

How can they see right through me, read me like an open book

They can melt me like a candle held against a glowing flame

'Cause the fire that's inside them is to passionate to tame

They make me want to cry with you when they swell and tear

They make me want to listen, all your words sound crystal clear

Your eyes have always told me all the secrets you can't say

How they lift me from my darkness, how they make me want to stay

And if you don't know now what I see within your eyes

Ask me to continue and I hope that you'll realize

That the only things I see are what make you who you are

But understand I know that you're much more than eyes by far



These lips your lips have dared to touch and how I loved that night

How I hoped it wouldn't fade with the dawning of the light

How they look so soft and supple, how I want them to explore

I promise not to stop them, never leave them wanting more

How I wish that you would use them to tell me all you know

Won't you want to let them guide you, tell me where my hands should go

When you leave your lips to tremble How I want to make them stop

Take the poison from your mouth, I would savor every drop

Suffer from this lingered pain just to save them from the taste

Of a single fallen tear that your eyes have long embraced

If only lips could tell you how wondrous yours are

Then a kiss would speak great volumes, which is better by far

Then all these simple words I say to tell you how I feel

And  in between your fantasies you'll now that I am real



Your hair is always vibrant, it's color's quite unique

I tried to capture it in paint and failed after a week

How you sometimes hide behind it in loving apprehension

And how you seem upset but really only want attention

When the wind gets so annoying and your hair blows in your face

And you get a bit frustrated how I'd move with subtle grace

How I long to push aside, tuck your hair behind your ear

Run my fingers down your cheek, lift your chin till we are near

Pull your essence ever closer, breath you in with one small sigh

Take soft kisses from your lips and make your worries swiftly die

How can you be so silly not to understand my heart

Loving you to me is the simplest form of art

And this time when I paint you no pigment will suffice

I'll color your hair with golden words I hope you think are nice



How things that are so simple are beautiful to you

Lying on my back, I'm learning things I never knew

Gazing up into the sky, forming pictures with the stars

As you take me up to Jupiter, past mercury and mars

You always seem to lift me up, take me away from here

Like a movie or a dream I'm on a cloud when you are near

How you want to walk with me to view your favorite place

As I stair so wantonly at your moonlit face

And you show me what it is you see in every aging tomb

I can not help but let your words puncture and consume

Every simple thought and feeling that I've ever had

Is in a moment lost forever and I'm sort of glad

I'll tell you that I love you 'til your tired of that phrase

And then I'll simply say it a million different ways



How you always seem so right, even when you may be wrong

I'll always trust the things you say, for however long

How when I feel alone and in grave need of a friend

You are always with me even if I must pretend

And how on every mopey day you push away my tears

Even though you don't enjoy it, you take away my fears

How whenever I am blue, a sad and crying mess

You, unlike the rest of them, refuse to love me less

And even though you may be scared when I scream and run

You're strong enough to never yield, second best to none

When I need a shoulder or an ear to understand

A lifter of my spirits or a holder of my hand

You are always there for me no matter what the cost

And I know that when you're with me I never will be lost



How you get so angry when I hate the things you do

Please don't take offense to it, I really do love you

But I have to say I hate them, though It's simply just a ploy

'Cause even things that I should hate fill me up with joy

And if I would admit this, even to myself

My ship of safety in a bottle lying on the shelf

Would shatter to the ground, sink into the heart of me

Then I'd be falling further, drowning deeper in your sea

How I love the way you always like to look your very best

And how I love the way you laugh, poke fun at me and jest

Even if I push away, I really need you near

And how I love how every word is always so sincere

So never shall you wonder, for I hate no part of you

And always shall you know, I love everything you do.



You ask me why I love you and with this I'll tell you how

It's something really simple that I've know for some time now

The day we met and you saved me I think that it was fate

But I predicted then and there the thing that makes you great

And I was told by your own voice the burden that you bare

Your heart is big enough to love and large enough to care

For all the sad pathetic fools who don't deserve a chance

'Cause you find something more in them with each and every glance

How you always care no matter how much you may hurt

It's really quit frustrating when they're treating you like dirt

And I wish that I could save you from the pain that you endure

But I should know that I can't help, there's really not a cure

Every thing can fade in time but true love will never flee

And every time I'm wanting you, I hope your wanting me




Author's Notes/Comments: 

The poem of perfect length according to poe is approximately 100 lines.  Poe attemped perfection with his 108 line poem The Raven, which by the way I have memorized.  I suppose this 108 line poem of mine is my attempt at perfection.  It focuses on a simple question with not so simple an answer. Hope you love it as much as I do!  I love you!

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Denise's picture

I just read the poem again and I still love it. Your use of words is seriously amazing, but I did catch a few editorial errors. Never stop writing!

lavalady's picture

YOU ARE AMAZING!!! WONDERFUL, this was sooo wonderful!!! Great job!