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Preamble

There will always be someone else who

Loves you more than I do,

I cannot measure their love with my own,

And I do not think love can be measured by

One heart alone, we are all too different from each other,

I have my own ways of loving, so do you,

So do they…

But I do hope there is someone else who

Loves you more than I do –

I am not infallible, I am only human

Promises and sweet words will not be enough

To keep me from making mistakes…

To absolve me of my mistakes...

I will make mistakes, I don’t know when, but

I am sure I will,

So I pray that someone else will love you

More than I can, someone needs to be able to

Pull you from me before I can

Make too many mistakes

Out of loving you

This is not me telling you that

I don’t love you –

Because I do.

And love has blinded many people,

Love has triumphed over history,

And I, I am nothing but a human.

I will, believe me, love you until

It is the only thing that runs my reasons,

Until sanity has left me,

I will always love you in my own way.

It won’t be by your books –

Or by anyone’s, for that matter.

I will love you the way I am wired to love someone

More than myself,

Bare and raw, and painfully human.

So, I am wishing to God,

That someone else loves you more than I do...

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Written by
ekstyn
Published
Jul 19, 2017
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#love#preamble#forewarning
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