I LOVE YOU

"I don't know how I love you but I do.

And I can't make it stop, -I don't want it to.

I love you in a way that isn't clear,
Like an Autumn sky, and late afternoon winds.

I love you like I want to get lost with you
Where it's cold
So that you'll warm me up, so that I'll warm you up.

I love you like I want to keep you safe,
I love you like I want to keep you wild.

I love you inside the aching vault of my heart,
The vault where everything that isn't . to be loved by me is found.

I love you in whispers when I hold you and you can't hear me
I love you in fingers touching briefly,
I love you as you speak and as you dance.

I love you longing to have you,
I love you denying to love,
I love you far, I love you close,
I love you even when I rationally tell myself you cannot love me back,
For evident human reasons ,
And I love you as I refute each one of them..

I love you in a foreign language I don't understand.

Yet I yearn To learn.

Teach me,
Love,
Teach me how to love you.