I Can and I Will

love you

Gold, flowing, limitless.

My heart fills and ruptures,

shards of frozen rose petals and the warmth of light.

I can see you now!

I see the love in your heart,

the love flowing through everything in your world.

Loving you is drowning.

Wave after wave-

crashing and suffocating and all-encompassing.

Loving you is what I know.

My heart beats bubblegum blue bruises on my chest.

Falling in love with you is endless.

It is afternoons in beams of sun,

Contentedness and warmth and happiness.

A book that is impossible to put down,

Pressed flowers,

Overripe strawberries,

And the giddiness of a child.

My mind beats an opposing rhythm.

She is learning.

She will learn-

I can be loved,

I will be loved,

I will love you.

With all I am,

all I have done,

all I will do.

My heart is made to love you.