i will

i'm still cheating (ie this isn't new writing, as i keep promising)...i wrote this about a year ago...but i still like it, and hey, it's valentine's day.
know that we all deserve the opportunity to make these promises as well as the opportunity to receive these promises from another's lips.
and, as i re-read this, it strikes me again how much loving other people is bound up in how i love You.

happy valentine's day
i wish you love, love, love, any and all kinds
b


I will cherish
that sleep-sluggish time when the sun shines pale on the wall, when your eyes reluctantly blink open.
meal-after-meal-after-meal with you, food for our bellies and hearts and minds.
shared laughter, in all its forms, chuckles and giggles and belly-laughs and happy tears rolling down.
standing next to you, solid and firm, singing praises, together, whispering prayers, together.
dancing, laughing, running, skipping, playing, a childlike joy in our hearts.
loving you, body and soul--dancing--with you and against you and for you—day and night and morning-time, too.

I will delight
in your eyes, the planes of your face, your eyebrows, your lips
in your ears, the slope of your shoulders, the strength of your arms
in you, warm solid weight of you, a place for my shoulderblades to rest against
in your mind, a canyon that I will spend my life exploring
in your heart, a small fragile thing that I will spend my life cradling in my hands
in your soul, a song that I will spend my life singing.
i choose you, just like you have chosen me.
just like the way You did, You who chose me, first.