The Why

I tell you I love you, you look and you sigh.

I look at you vexed, you then ask of me, “why?”

This question perplexes me, “How can she not know?”

I take care while I search for the words that will show.

Your blue eyes are beautiful so crystal and clear,

Your mouth tastes of strawberries so sweet through the year.

Your hair smells of flowers a bouquet newly cut,

Your smile opens hearts never to shut.

As my thoughts go further into the love that we share,

I love you much deeper than eyes, mouth, smile and hair.

Yes, your body is elegant, each curve so precise,

Your skin is so smooth, to look upon you so nice.

But there was much more to this love from the start,

This woman, best friend, she is truly my heart.

So into my soul I reach down once more,

To give her the “why?” that questions her core.

I saw with my eyes the beauty you are,

That beauty inside you marked with a scar.

A light glimmering brightly, even through tears,

You showed me your heart, and your troublesome years.

Your heart filled with pain, with hurt and with fear,

Even those being present the light did appear.

More than the scars, than the darkness and doubt,

Love, joy, and hope were strongest and stout.

In the midst of your storm, I saw something so rare,

A woman so passionate, my heart stopped and stared.

Emotional beauty in it’s most vulnerable state,

Yet stronger than any I had known to this date.

It would be easy to say that I fell for your smile,

Your eyes or your hair, your kisses, your style.

All of those things bring men to their knees,

But something more vital my love for you sees.

I see a woman so fragile, yet stronger than all,

A woman that loves both the great and the small.

Someone that gives until nothing is left,

A woman deserving of God’s very best.

With one single breath, and barely a word

You lift me up higher as if on wings of a bird.

For all that you are, I know only this,

To love you is joy, to be loved by you is bliss.

There aren’t enough words to explain how I feel.

My heart is all yours, you have no need to steal.

In this moment it hits me like hammer to nail,

“Why” I love you is YOU, and that never will fail.