It has been my experience in life that there are only two things worth sacrificing everything for: love and hope. Hope lights the path forward; love is the fuel to keep going. I wrote this a long time ago for someone that doesn’t want to know it, but will forever fill me with hope and love.
I’ve heard that a smile is worth one thousand words,
And yet no mere book written with the hand of man
Could dare compare to what rests upon your sweet face.
Still now, even a spring day in late May fall short
Of matching the hope one glance made to inspire.
Even from Dante’s ninth ring, I could sing of thee.
Oh, with sparked heart, you bring ever more life to me.
I’ve not the skill to express, nor the eyes to see,
What horrid emptiness your absence would expose;
Except to say it’s as the Earth without a Sun
And that I fall toward you with that same gravity.
You need not say all the things that need not be said,
For I can live forever, forever be fed,
By the warmth that springs forth from deep inside of you.
And when night falls and end of day has come to pass,
I yearn until I can look upon you once more
To thank the fates that they would smile upon me
And call myself amongst them, luckiest of all.
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