The Kind of Love I Have for Him
I just love him so much.
I love him the kind of love
Where I want to ask him
What color drapes to put in the living room
And how many eggs
He wants for breakfast
And check three times
If he made reservations for dinner
And call him on his lunch break
To see how his day’s going
And tell him about mine.
I want our kids to run to him
When he gets home from work
Screaming, “Daddy!”
I want to watch stupid movies
That only he likes with him
Just to make him happy
And force him to watch mine.
I want to travel the world with him.
I want to take him to see
The ocean at night,
When it’s the most beautiful.
I want him to grab me
When I wake up screaming
In the middle of the night
To tell me that
The demons are far away,
The monsters are gone now,
And as he holds me
I relax back into reality.
I want him to know the story
Of my life and be the story of my life.
I want him to see me
On our wedding day
And think that he is making the right decision,
Spending the rest of his life
With me.
I love him so much
That I want to die first
So that I don’t have to ever
Live without him.
I want to replay his voice
Over and over in my head.
I want to miss him
And yet know that
When I come back
Everything is going to be the same
As when we last parted.
I want to fight with him
(Because that’s just life)
And then go get ice cream
At three in the morning to make up.
I want to stay up
All night with him,
Just talking about life.
I want to teach him how to dance,
And I want him to be happy,
No matter what I value his happiness.
I want to struggle through
The hard parts of life
At his side,
I want to kiss him in the rain,
And I want to wake up in sixty years
And look at him and say
That is the man
That has made my life what it is.
I want to fall asleep
To the sound of him breathing,
I want to listen to all his
Stupid dumb lectures on science,
I want to bring him home
To meet my parents and
They will love him so much.
I want him to be the first person
I go to when something wonderful happens,
I want to be excited
For good things in his life
And for him to be excited
For good things
In my life
Because it’s OUR life now.
I want to talk to him
About every major decision I make
And write little sticky notes
To remind him to do the things
I’ve asked him to do six times
And stick them on his forehead
When he’s sleeping.
I want to throw a pillow at him
Because we’ve been married
For six years and he still thinks
He loves me more.
I want to watch him grow old
And grow old by his side.
I want to play cruel April fool’s jokes on him
And take him furniture shopping
And cook him food
And make pancakes on Saturday mornings
And I want to go through the ups
And downs of life.
I want him to have and to hold
From that day forward,
For richer or poorer,
For better or worse,
In sickness and health,
Until the day I die.
To love and honor him
With all the days of my life,
To always tell him the truth,
To be faithful to him
And to care about everything in his life.
I want to tell him everything.
I want to have weird little traditions,
Like poking the other one until they
Wake up or whatever.
I want to have him be my New Year’s kiss,
My valentine EVERY year,
My superhero,
My one and only.
I’m beginning to believe this is true love.
And if it’s not I don’t want to find it with anyone but him.