Inside you, there is a treasure chest I need to open,
full of diamonds and jewels that glisten in love’s light.
Clutching your heart like a key, unlocking the chains,
dazzled by the unfettered beauty of all that is you,
your smile the answer to all of my silent questions.

You are the reason my trees bud back to life,
why the sun rises each day with the moon lighting up the nights,
why the distance an ocean covers becomes a pond in a park.
This is why the Earth revolves in the deep unsettling dark;
so I can write you a little poem and know that you will read it.

I want you to know just how much you mean to me,
but the words haven’t been coined yet for the feelings I have,
even other languages struggle to give me the lexicon I require,
so these little words arranged in no order in particular
will have to serve the idyll of the beauty that is you.