Shhhh...I love you

I feel in love with the quiet way your heartbeat
Soothed me
It moved me to choking on hot tears
That spelled out happiness in zig-zags down my cheek
The security I felt as a claustrophobic lock behind your impenetrable arms
Surprised me
I never even questioned that look in your eyes when you loved me
Because I knew it to be truth,
Like you know that death is the end of this life
And love can make you blind
I’ve been told to sit and wait while so many people walked away
That I came to expect it
As a testament to the worthlessness that I felt
But I’ve been sitting here quietly
For sometime and you are still sitting with me
You’ve even watched a few of them leave me, all the while you held my hand
And whispered to me in a silent way, with your lips and your eyes
You never know the right thing to say or do, but if you did I wouldn’t believe it was truly you
I’d ask that you take off that mask and get real with me
A-knife-between-your-rib-cage kind of real
We could taste copper together, you and I
And when the secrets spill out of us we can paint a pretty picture on the ground
And when the secrets start to flood us we can surely drown
Looking into your ever changing eyes
I am no longer surprised
By how much I love you