What I Love About You | Love Poems

I love the way you talk,
I love the way you smell,
I love the way you make me laugh,
Even when my life's a living hell.

I love your smile,
And your soft and gentle touch,
I love the way you show you care,
When the world seems like too much.

I love the way you hold me,
And make all my fears go away,
I love the way you protect me,
So I know you?re here to stay.

I love the way you understand,
And never let me give up,
I love the way you're always here,
To keep my spirits up.

I love the way you look at me,
And always bring out the best,
I love the way you lift me up,
And put me above all the rest.

I love the way you know what to say
When I'm really mad,
I love the way you wipe away my tears,
When I'm really sad.

I love the way you hug me,
Or sweetly kiss my cheek,
I love the way you play with my hair,
And make me feel unique.

I love the way you make me feel,
Like I'm floating on a cloud,
You look at me like I'm special,
And not just another face in the crowd.

I love the way you know me so well,
And know when to give me my space,
And when I'm ready to talk,
I can always count on seeing your smiling face.

I love everything about you,
From your smile to your loving heart,
I love the kind of person you are,
How you're sweet and honest and smart.

You've found a place in my heart
As such a special friend,
And I know that you love me,
For real and not pretend.

With time my feelings for you have grown,
But are still constantly changing,
The thoughts in my head and love in my heart,
Are constantly rearranging.

I love you like any friend would,
If not a little more,
But I don't understand these feelings yet,
So I can't proclaim them and even the score.

But please don't let the friendship and love you've shown ever die and wither,
Because they're something I'll cherish,
And hold in my heart forever.

Life in Deer Meadow

is my electrocuted ice cream
in tune w/ the
small
kitchen
table from damn near nineteen
fifty-nine, the
careless country home,
the sideways falling rain, the girl i
hardly know (short hair, o.k.
style)
& a dramatic sort of
impromptu fever-opera
-
two hands, ten thunderclaps
till
the linoleum surrenders, collapses, and cries out:
“mercy! mercy!
MERCY! ”
-
or what?

That's Life Just The Same

How can you feel happy with your lot in life
Ignored by your adult children and divorced by your wife
Though for your personal problems you are not to blame
As some well may tell you that's life just the same.

By your ex wife and your children you've been treated bad
Though to her you've been a good husband and to them a good dad
Dejected and lonely and your better years gone
But you should hang in there and keep on keeping on.

You never seek counselling though perhaps you should
It could not do you any harm and perhaps do you some good
With others your problems you never do share
Your crosses in life on your own you do bear.

For many a hard World to live in or so it does seem
Of a happier future you only can dream
Upon our life's journey the road can be rough
And sometimes our best not even good enough.

Of your recent past no happy memories to recall
And things for you have not been going well at all
But you should not feel cause for remorse or for shame
That things are not going well for you since that's life just the same.