Love can be soft
Tender smiles sent across a room
Or gentle hands brushing through hair
Soothing, calming

Love can be breathtaking
When deep baritones chase away all thought
And bow-shaped lips demand your attention
Making you forget how to breathe
Even forget your own name

Love can catch you unaware
Emotions burrowing down deep
Taking root and blooming
Soft petals of your heart unfurling
Reaching for the light he offers

Love is freeing
In the way he holds your hand
Unafraid of the stares
Smiling down at you
As if there is no one else that matters

Love is capitaving
Each reverent touch sending shivers
Like lightning skating across the sky

Love soothes
Hugs bringing your bodies close
Whispers breathed into your skin
Drawing you closer still
Until you give up, give in

Love bites
With tears that fall
And words that crush
Tearing at the strings of your heart
Until you are both left with drifting
Unwilling to forgive
But desperate to forget

Loving someone can change you
In the way you take your tea
Or the books on your shelf
The music reverberating in your car

But loving him transforms you
Filling in each crack until you are whole
Seeing the world in bursts of color
Instead of shades of gray and black and white

Because love can heal
With time, with grace
Apologies trailed up your spine and down your neck
Words lost but not needed

Because loving him feels right
Needing those bow-shaped lips
As they sing a melody of praises
Echoing the thoughts that kept you up at night

Love can be soft, but love is also hard
Making you bend, break
Buidling you up
Until you crash down
Limbs entangled, bodies as one
Giving and taking, taking and giving

Love is binding, blinding
In the way he kisses you
And you willingly surrender
As if you are kissing the sun itself