You were the one I always saw beneath the sun.
I'd chase you like a child running
to and from the waters washing up to shore.
It was you who I saw standing beside the cellar door
and in your eyes I saw a dream of lasting love
with a life span of forever more
I asked you if you could blow out the stars
and let the twinkle in your eye light up the world.
You formed a smile with a gentle laugh
that echoed in my present and settled in my future.
"I love you, I love you, I love you..."
Believe me yet, or do I have to say it again?
But it wasn't you I was trying to convince over time.
I wanted to believe I could love like any normal man could
and find a love pure and wild like any man should.
And I did.
No longer do I chase you beneath the sun.
I've found out what it means to find and capture love.
I've kept you in day, danced in the evening
And held you throughout the night
without any worry of what hurt shall appear in life.
Love has introduced me to wisdom
that had a new feeling of self worth close beside it.
But, I felt the doubts inside of my heart,
although the solitude wasn't too far off behind it.
I'm older and stronger now with partly you to thank
and I've proven myself by protecting my love.
And this world doesn't always work with you
but now that I've lived these nineteen years
I feel like I've got a better idea of what I'm getting into,
And I'm fine with that now,
I've adjusted and accepted the horrors of reality
which strangely only strengthened the beauty that existed.
So, I'm even happier now and see life in a new way
with a new found appreciation for the love and hate within it.
And somehow, someway, you're still here.
So, I've done nothing but weakened all of my fears
and focused in on the horizon
as my mind and heart worked together
to make everything else in this world of mine clear.
But, nothing became clearer then the journey
our love has taken and still takes
till this very day.
"I love you, I love you, I love you..."
...I believe it now.
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poetry is how I learned
to speak my mind
and oh, the conversations we’ve had...