How 
do you tell 
someone 
you love them?  
I've said 
and meant 
the words a 
thousand times over, 
but 
with each 
utterance 
I feel 
there must be 
more.  
A better way 
to express 
vocally 
what is only 
felt 
inwardly.  

Hands shake, 
heart pounds, 
blood flows 
as torrential 
rains 
upon parched 
desert.  
Warm and cold 
simultaneously.  
Weak yet stronger 
than ever imagined.  

How 
can so much 
feeling and 
emotion 
be shown in 
three 
little 
words?  

How 
can those words 
ever 
be enough?  

With all 
the gifts I 
have been given, 
with all the 
words 
I have at 
my command, 
none 
can help 
me.  
None 
can save 
me 
from this intense 
feeling of 
inadequacy.

And yet 
with each 
trickle of 
sensation, 
I shudder 
in other 
worldly delight.  
Real 
becomes fantasy.  
Fantasy 
becomes real.  

A single 
touch, 
a whispered 
word 
and a raging 
blaze 
consumes 
my every 
thought.  
My soul 
flies, 
my body 
dances, 
my voice 
sings, 
my eyes 
cry... 

All joyfully 
for the 
love 
so freely 
given, 
so earnestly 
felt.  
Even my body 
cannot find 
a single 
expression, 
how ever 
do I 
expect 
to find a 
single word, 
a simple 
phrase?

They will 
never be 
enough, 
yet 
they are 
all that 
I have.

I Love You


SharayaKai '01