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How do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning .. that’s beautiful 

But let me put it in my own words

She deserves to have the world 

The love, the letters, the words in my heart 

I’m filled with remorse, perhaps I should start

How do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning .. that’s beautiful 

.. but I my heart writes

How do I love you? How could I not?

Let me begin to count the ways.

1 love you in the deepest, most honest breath 

You let my soul reach. I love you for letting me reach. The more I want with each

2Feeling for the touch

of your heartful being,

soft skin 

and perfect grace.

Your face

I love you

with the simple, daily needs

Our routines 

We share in blissful moments, 

day and night.

We love 

I love you freely, I strive for what's right

I like you to my left

I love you in my life 

My future ____ 

I love you purely

I love you with the passion that I feel

My keel

In old sorrows 

with all my childhood's trust

I love you with a love I thought had thrust

With those I've lost -

I love you with each breath,

Each smile, each beat

Every word, every touch

I can just never get enough 

Of how just so full you make me feel

I love you.

My grandmother always said,

“Everything worthwhile requires hard work.”

2 different people, one because we work

A goddess whose light I can’t ignore 

A single person, soul : mate 

Mine.. hopefully again 

And again 

And 

Again

And, if fate allows, I'll love you even more in heaven 

From now until then, I’ll love you every second

I’m sorry for my shallow words, I love you almost as much on the surface 

As I do with what lies inside 

Beside 

Your beautiful body 

I ache to touch and kiss

Lick and love 

My beloved 

I only got to 2

Yet I only want 1

Me counting the ways has only begun

My beloved

My Goddess 

I hope you can forgive me

I promise to be honest and try my best

I promise I’ll work tirelessly for you to 

get rest, 

But 

..

SEX

I want with you 

and

only you

Lying down 

Bent over

On the counter next to the 

How do I love you? In countless ways, 

I’ve been lucky to for countless wonderful days

Even in moments of pain and sorrow 

When I fear tomorrow 

Won’t you see, feel and hear me again? 

Won’t you let me listen 

even if only to the beat of your heart

My beloved.

I fucking love you. In a way words can’t convey or express. I am forever heart in hand. I prefer the feeling of your own. Together I feel home.

My beloved. I’ve made mistakes, very

Very

Very

Grave mistakes 

I’m eager to do what it takes

Even if it means just one kiss

For I would be a fool to let it drift 

I’ll be there to catch it 

Me loving you like this has just started 

My heart broke when you departed 

I’m done being selfish

You

make me selfless, I’m helpless 

To you

I’m the luckiest man alive 

to have you for the time I’ve had 

Give me another moment 

And I promise I’ll surprise you 

in the most pleasant deeply loving ways 

I hope I showed you that today

And to do so again

Tomorrow 

And forever 

This is just a taste 

I have been someone else that I hate

I’m sorry 

I acted out of fear, frustration and anger 

With myself

I will always need help

It starts from self

Allowing someone in

You are a person in my someone else

My heart has felt

And that I know I need

You

I’ll always do what’s in my control 

I’m sorry my misguided attempt to love has taken such a toll

on a woman I regard as 

My beloved. 

My only

I am yours.

If only 

Emotion

I’m lost without my light,

You bring me joy and inspiration 

It’s you that I write 

I love you, won’t you let me another night?

I only got to 2 and I’ll spend my whole life 

Counting only a fraction 

Of the ways I love you

How I do

Why I do

And what an honor it is

I do

It’s hard to put such strong feelings and emotions into words

But I have tried and will continue to

In the hope that I can convey my love for you

In the hope to make you feel more loved

My body, heart and mind ignite when

You enter my mind or space

The thought and reality of 

Your embrace 

Your touch

Our love

I’ll never forget 

Moments with you 

I hope to have more to remember 

In the meantime, my love for

You.

Is inescapable 

So I 

Writing poems and letters 

Will keep counting and showing you the ways

That is what I tried my best to do today

But it isn’t all that I have left to say

I love you.

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