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For Eric
For Eric
I.
Because i love you
i love…
the secret hidden in the starless night of your hair.
how you hold such prefect poise,
each movement deliberate and graceful,
like a flower turning toward the sun.
watching your battle against the armies of sleep.
the power of your voice when singing,
the sound of your words when speaking,
the patience of your silence when thinking.
the way you look wearing glasses; those small silver earrings
listening to those stories about a mystic city by the sea;
and anticipating what novel adventure will escape
those parted lips, illuminating the scroll of your life.
the crescent white flecks on your fingernails.
your confidence in the abilities honed through
passionate devotion to your craft and the pride that makes
you a star tempered by a modesty that makes you shine.
how being late flusters you so.
that through you i have learned to love the world
since you exist within it,
but remain something greater than the world for me.
So these things i love because i love you,
yet not one explains why it is you i love.
II.
Why i love you i can not say.
The answer spurns the rational critique
of either Descartes, or Bacon,
the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle.
It is something i know.
by the same intuitive knowing
through which i feel the sacredness of all things;
the presence of Divinity.
The Truth “i love you” exists as an immutable moment
awaiting discovery;
a revelation revealed each instant i am with you.
i do not love you simply because i can,
i love you because i can not avoid it;
there can be no other outcome but to love you.
i love accepting that it may be unrequited;
oh, how inconsequential that seems..
i want to create a perfectness for you
and, so far, this poem is as close as
i have come to creating anything
worthy of you Eric.