Love is patient, you are slow

Love is patient.
Love is patient.
Love is patient and that is a good thing, my love,
because you
Are slow.

I loved you when you had zits and braces,
And I will love you wrinkled and gray.
Your face is not what I love you for,
But, it would be nice if you would show
Show up, show your face
Instead you make me wait.

Love, you are late
A few years.
I told you where I was.
I've been here
Loving patient, loving slow
Loving from a distance.
Getting old.

I made my love known
To you
And you reciprocated
But you are slow and love is patient,
So I have waited.

Please come soon
With not another "on my way"
No more "not now"
Come as you are

Love, be here

--Caroline