Reason
I love you simply because I love you,
because the way that I love you is reason enough for me to love you.
Because if you were fire I would burn up in your flame,
just to be a little closer.
Because if you were light I would turn blind at the sight of you,
and still not shut my eyes in pain.
Because if you were Sun I would be Icarus
and I'd build wings merely to reach you,
just for a moment,
for a minute glimpse,
and then fall in the abyss,
admitting sweet defeat.
If you were candle I would pray before you,
and then bend to kiss your heat.
And if you asked me of my burnt lips
my confessional would be discreet
- so much that you wouldn't know what it means.
I would tell you that absences hunger me
and that I need to eat,
but that the presences - God - devour me
and barely let me live.
And if you looked at me I'd burst ablaze
because it is your presence I kiss.
It is because of your hands that mine tremble
and because of your tears that I whimper,
it is your eyes that I miss
even when they're near,
it is your reprieve
or your glare
- they burn me either way -
it is for you that I pray,
it is for you that I'm here,
it is for you that I stay,
it is for you that I breathe,
it is you that I bow to,
it is you that I'm blind to
- even when it is you alone I see -
it is you, it is you-
It is because I love you,
because I love you, because I love you,
(because I don't know how not to,)
because I love you, because-
That's it.
There are no words for it.