Why Do I Love You?

Why do I love you?

 

I love you not for what you are

But for what I am when I am with you.

I love you not only for what you have made of yourself

But for what you are making of me.

 

I love you for ignoring

The possibilities of the fool in me

And for laying the possibilities of the good in me.

 

I love you for closing your eyes

To the discords in me

And for adding to the music in me by worshipful listening.

 

I love you because

You are helping to make the lumber of my life

Not a tavern but a temple

And the works my everyday life

Not a reproach but a song.

 

I love you because you have loved me

More that any creed could have done to make me happy;

You have done it…

With a touch…

With a word…

With a sign…

You have done it, by just being yourself.

Perhaps, after all, that is what loves means

For I will always love you more.