For your birthday this year
I bought you a frame
And put in it a thing
From our last holiday.

I wrote the year in the corner,
See? Just through the glass.
So you'd always remember
That moment together, the two of us.

On the back of the mount
I wrote my love declaration.
Lucid and bold,
So unlike my stifled diction.

Shocked, I replaced
The chipboard backing.
Honest words hidden,
Exhausted, mind rumbling.

And there it will stand
On your shelf quite plainly.
My confession laid bare,
For you to see, daily.

I lost my way
To work today,
Without you by my side
I go astray.

I'll always need you,
Though I'd never admit;
You're the one I'll always see me with.

You're not perfect,

But
I
Like
Those
Bits
Too.

This poem is my way of saying
'I love you'
Without you ever knowing
That you're the one I love.