I never saw it coming and left it unattended. Did I tell you once upon a time how you set my heart afire? Do you know of this feeling, deep inside my soul? Where the warmth of your words passes on a sweet afterglow? I bask in your verse, they carry me for miles, some days... I look back on them to make it even further. And then.
Oh, foolish talk, yes? Like a teenager in lust. It’s not prosed, my dear, but how my brain seems to work. In overtime. Again. It would not seem quite right, these common old phrases. When the heart is all soft and gently confiding. Like ordering a seltzer when champagne is wanted. You know. It has never felt typical, but, very much surreal, a constant bond of feeling loved, a sealing of my fate. Awakened wholly sated under a blanket of love, covering my misgivings, warming up my heart.
I’m not sure how I can be any clearer, you’ve stolen something from my soul, yet, I freely give it without even thinking. Know that you are loved, because therein lies the truth. It keeps my heart a kindle, warmth consumed in whole.
PS... I love you, Denise
All I have are my words, armed in my mind, written in pen, stand by stand. Oh, yes. Still by hand. It has a different feel. Altered not by keys, backspace, and delete, I write, erase, tear it to pieces and start all over again. And again.
It’s my way. I walk out to the deep end of the page and dive right in.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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