If You do Love Me
If you do love me
it is more than just the words.
You may have me
but you can lose me;
I can be there
and be gone the next.
"I love you"
is meant to be a proclamtion of affection
but an echo in the distance
just the same.
If you do love me
I will see it in your eyes,
know it in your actions,
and feel it in your touch.
Through your hands I should feel your gentleness,
and with your words hear your honesty.
With your actions
compassion will be displayed
and when you do not speak your eyes will do so instead.
Under star filled skies
I wish to talk of our lives,
of our future and our past.
For when I understand the true meaning
behind your showers of affection,
"Because I love you",
will show me colors before my eyes.
My world will shift
and everything will be clearer
because our relationship will be much more than love
and something even more.
~C.C.B