Before You Say I Love You

Before you say I love you,

You must learn to say it

Without those three words.

I am learning.

And one day,

I shall have the courage

To say the sweet,

True thing.

I will tell you that

I love you.

On a day like every other,

But my heart will be so full for you

You and your eyes so full of promise,

And you will see

All that The Pacific

Prevents.

You will know

How true it is,

As although this may be

The first time my weighted words

Meet your ears

It will not be the first time

You hear my

I Love You

As you taught me long ago

How to say so without words.

2013