Time For Some Inspirational Poetry :)

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The love between a man and woman is so complex that there are a million and one ways to describe it.  How do you put a feeling...an emotion...into words? How can you capture its true essence unless you directly experience the pain and joy of loving someone to the end of time?  The following poem is just a glimpse of what true love is like through the eyes of a happily married and very gifted poet :)

How Do I Love Thee?
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. 
 

 

No matter what happens...I still love you, Charles...And I always will...