.

I love you with all my heart

When you look so fondly at beauty.

When your voice muses silently,

That the air around you stops to breathe.

I love you with all my heart

When you place your heart on your hand

and fiddle music with words

composing a hymn in your tale.

I love you with all my heart

When you, in somber clarity,

look at the stars and skies above,

and talk to them in listless flight.

I love you with all my heart

When you stop to look around

To see if there is any l o v e,

you could ever give, with what you have.

I know you will grow to be

ever more soft, with ever-growing wit,

and yet still remain to be

As a child, full of love, full of gleam--

And It is why you are

so dear to me.

And to our friendship, eternally.