I love you because your thoughts help me complete my own

I love you because your touch fills me with a warmth that is inexplicably new and comfortingly familiar all at once

I love you because your faith has given you the clarity to trust that I am what you desire

I love you because you are remarkably strong

I love you because your mind is vast and its depths are forever enlightening

I love you because you are whole and I am whole and together we are complements

I love you because I know that I never want to lose this feeling
And that, my dear, has got to be worth something

look in my eyes
you think you see through
mirrors not windows
you only see you

smooth as a well
I smile and I nod
but I am a maelstrom
beneath this façade

what happens if I lose control
and do the thing that I dream of
and let your mind caress my soul
I am afraid to fall in love

and what would I do if I fell
I'd pull my feelings way down deep
and melt into your arms and tell
my deepest secrets in my sleep

The sky is the limit they’d say
Up I would look
A blue abyss of clouds and clarity
Or a dark nights sky, spattered with stars
I would love nothing more than to be one with those stars
They’re much deeper
Omniscient if you will
Than the translucent clouds admired at daybreak
Countless songs, poems, and metaphors have been crafted regarding their beautiful complexity
Yet here I remain
Wishing,once more, upon a fateful star

Countless moments with countless souls
She has looked into widened eyes after being asked one of the most pressing questions of them all
“Have you ever been in love?” They’d inquire
Each with the same longing gaze upon their face
“No”
She’d mutter, shameful of this response

Now however, after all this time
When queried once more upon these same 6 words
Her response has changed
“Yes” she proclaims
For she has grown to be in love with herself
And this. This is the greatest love of them all