We lie here now clasping hands

  I turn to watch you, to see

  Your chest rise and fall with steady breaths

  And feel my own fill with heady bursts

  Bursts of an emotion so pure and uplifting

  Bursts of an elixir that’s truly intoxicating

  Something that makes my head spin and my breath catch

  And leaves me wishing the moment would draw for an eternity

  When was it that this begun?

  That I found myself reacting to your presence

  That I began aching for your touch

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  And my time away from you seem dull and lifeless

  When was it that I first loved you?

  When did I? How did I? What caused it?

  A holy trinity of interrogatives assaults me

  But I am still left unclear.

  When did I first love you?

  Was it when we first met?

  The instant when my eyes sought yours

  And found themselves looking into their hopes.

  An entrancement that persists till today.

  Or was it when you said your name

  And my mind seized it like the gospel

  Knowing it to be a life saving truth?

  Perhaps it’s when we crossed that street

  And our hands found each other

  An embrace of fingers that seemed so right

  So fitting. Like it was always meant to be.

  It was definitely before you said yes

  Though that was when my heart swelled and leapt,

  Exulted that you loved me too.

  For that made me love you more.

  But even with this

  I do not know when I first loved you

  And I’m not sure I truly care

  When it started or whence it came

  All I know is that I do so now.

  I love you! Dear Lord, I love you!

  Irrevocably, wholly, truthfully

  And I will never, ever stop.