you have underestimated
the difference in strength between us.
so long as I am strong,
I am stronger than you.

There's disgust
in your eyes
at the sight of a starving cat on the streets

And amusement
on your lips
when your words make me bleed

I've felt the mockery
of your touch
every time you bring me to my knees

Yes,
how could anyone love you,
stand to have their heart picked at?

*But here I am, doing just that.

and the look in her eyes*
*was all fire and beast

Someone once asked me to describe you,
and I couldn't.

I do not know you in words.

I only know you
by the way your heartbeat feels
when I lay my head on your chest,
by the way your lips curve at my feeble attempts at jokes,
by the way your eyes glisten during a sad movie scene, and
by the way you speak my name.

I do not know you in words.  
But I know you in love.