I just had a shot
Of Pappy Van Winkle neat
Smooth with a good burn

Never have I taken love
for granted or in vain.
If some perceive that this I've done
I'm sorry for the pain.

For love, that peerless gift of all
should never be denied.
But understanding's needed
and in hearts it must abide.

Absence makes it greater still
as distance magnifies
The longing harbored by each heart,
though social mores defies.

So cling to love through thick and thin
through unrequited pain.
Reality is just the one
and love of self, the gain.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it  will pass away.*
~ **1 Corinthians 13:4-8

I just wanted to know you.
Even in the tiniest of measures.
In the most innocent of ways.
I just wanted to know you.

You made me laugh.
You lit me up like all the stars in the sky.
And although it was brief, and even though you may think this is corny,
You woke me up.
I felt there, captured in a moment.
You made me laugh.
And I hadn't in months.
I was in a daze it was too much.
But you shook me right up, right out of my depression coma.
And that is simply why I had to know you.

Maybe, just maybe,
you're going to be the one that saves me.