Let me in thse humble words, try to expess, how and why I love you.  Why try as I may, cannot find it in my heart to forget one brief instant of our time together.  Perhaps this is the only way I will ever to be able to say the things that need to be said.  ....Things that are now ,and will forever be a part of my life.  If by expressing my thoughts, you will know and understand why I must say them.

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I ask myself.....How long have I loved youo?

From the infinite moment I first heard your voice.... When I first looked into youor eyes......When I first touched your hand.... and when I first felt your lips on mine.  When that touch started an eternal flame within me, that has never ceased to glow..........That is how long I have loved you!

I ask myself......How true will I love you?

As true as each wave on all the Oceans that follow, unending after each other.....Because the pounding surf, is the the pounding of my heart....and the tides are my never ending breath,that returns again and again.... with every passing moment reminding me of you. That is how true I will love you.

I ask myself,.....How tenderly will I love you?

As tender as the softest breeze that caress the blossoms of each tree....As tender as the morning dew as it rest upon the frailest  flower....As tender and as gentle as the first rain of spring as it seeps into the earth to nourish allof natures plants....as as tenderly as these plants raise thier heads and bloomin the first rays of the sun...As tender as the softest moss that grows by a shaded stream....That is how Tender I will love you.

I ask myself .....How Dear is your love to me?

As Dear as the sun;s life giving rays embrace the Earth... warming her.... with a never ending warmth that reaches the very core of life itself.....As dear as the air we breath as it reaches into our bodies tosustain us, so that we may embrace the treasures around us.....That is how dear your love is to me.

I ask myself ....Why do I love you?

I can express it in only one way.....because you have become the Tap Root of my life...My very existence.   My life is like a giant tree....a tree that grows because of you.  It grows and reaches to the Heavens, only because you enrich my soul.  I spread my  branches of this great tree to protect you......and my hands become a thousand leaves that caress you.  My  skin is of tough bark that seals out the pain I must endure when I am without you.....and as time goes on....I feel this love will be an everlasting monument to the love I knew when I was with you......
.......For now...... I am without you.