Because You Can Love

Because you can love,
I love.
Because you were there,
I feel safe.
Because my reflection in you is good,
You have made me see.
Because you never change,
Never run away,
Have no fear,
Love with purity,
I too have no fear.

There is safety in your soul.
Purity of reliance inside of you.
Steadiness in every step within you.
Solid ground
Even footing.
Love so pure.
So unfettered.
Sterling.
Love that turned miles of pages in me.
A life once but measured,
Now measured in love.

A heart
Once waiting,
Now in respite.

You have made so much of this heart,
The heart I had packed in ice,
My love was always there
And ardent,
Seething,
Rushing inward,
An inside yearning for an outside,
To slowly burn and hence be free.
With you it feels its own warmth,
Its own warmth that warms itself and so now can warm you.

I love you.

I
Love.

I  love.

I love, indeed.
February 2004