To Love...
The dictionary defines love as a strong affection for another person..
It does not describe it as something one would endanger him or herself for, nor is it assigned the characteristics of something spectacular.
But to be in love, as I am with you, is to sacrifice sleep, to sacrifice time. To sacrifice expenses, materials, words, emotions. To offer humiliations and imperfections and to accept them in return.
To cry a thousand tears of anguish upon your absence and, even more-so, upon your quiet return:
Your stealthy foot over the threshold, and the silent breath of your heart, which once whispered words of heartfelt affection.
Everything about you, so quiet to me now...
© C. Hardison
It does not describe it as something one would endanger him or herself for, nor is it assigned the characteristics of something spectacular.
But to be in love, as I am with you, is to sacrifice sleep, to sacrifice time. To sacrifice expenses, materials, words, emotions. To offer humiliations and imperfections and to accept them in return.
To cry a thousand tears of anguish upon your absence and, even more-so, upon your quiet return:
Your stealthy foot over the threshold, and the silent breath of your heart, which once whispered words of heartfelt affection.
Everything about you, so quiet to me now...
© C. Hardison