When You Told Me You Loved Me

When you told me you loved me,
My heart danced inside me.
My Januarys turned to June,
And birds sang on the rainiest days.
I saw strangers walking by and wondered:
         “Can they tell?”
I wanted to scream out to the world:
         “I’ve found the man of my dreams
         And HE LOVES ME!”
I went to bed and grinned into my pillow.
I couldn’t stop smiling.
All my days were brighter,
My senses awakened because:
You said you loved me.

Do you remember, my sweet?
The innocence of the first realization of love?
The electricity when our eyes met,
The…static…when our hands touched.
We said:
         “I want to be pure to protect your purity.”
And:
         “I would never do anything to hurt you.”

Since then, we’ve stumbled,
         And we’ve
                   -tripped- and we’ve
                             f l o u n d e r e d.
We’ve said things we didn’t mean,
We’ve done things we regret,
And sometimes I wonder if we were right…
But then you take my hands,
         Look in my eyes,
                   And tell me you love me.

And my heart dances.