I love you mostly
Because I loved you so fast
And you can see my books of poetry
You can read how quickly I do this
But you can feel when you read them
And watch them
Turn to silence
For a while
That I have felt ashamed each time
Of how
Quickly I have felt that love
Like it's somehow terrible
Or immature
Or thoughtless of me
To fall in love so fast
But it's not
And what I love most about you
Is that I loved you quickly
And you saw
How truly wonderful that was
You understood
Instantly
That it was the only way to live
It has taken years for us to be hurt
Years to built up rocks around our beaches
Years to wear them down
Years to turn them to sand
But the excitement of the ocean
You and I both know
Lies in how quickly
The waters can change
And freely the waves will crash
That's the way to live
That's the way to celebrate each other
So let me start
From this day
A list of all the reasons that I love you
But I will keep pinned
To the top of that list
That you loved me back
And I knew it
By the way
You looked at me
When you saw
That I
Was about to crash
Into you.
