I loved you the instant I saw you
despite the fact that I didn't know you,
which is to say that I believed completely
that you should have been a painting.

As years of class slipped past us
I met you, learned who you are
and with each day you became
less of that painting and
more of a person.

By no means perfect,
everything about you
shook me to my very core.
A five minute conversation with you
could electrify my soul after
days of all work, and no sleep.

I began as a simple infatuation
I realize that now.
It grew into so much more.