?Why Did You Love Me
I asked her, longing, full of need
Tell me the reasons, plant the seed
?Why did you love me
Because you're a child in a mother's embrace
safe in the warmth of her arms' grace
Because you're the lover who always aches
for his beloved—for her sake
Let me tell you more, and more, and more
You are my speech, my song, the shimmer on my crown's core
You race to my heart, my mind, my weakest hour
you are the writer, the ink, the paper's power
the cure after God that can make me whole
You're the one I trusted in times of lies and spite
the one who mended my broken night
Let me soothe your heart a little more
You are my bird of love, my happiness in store
You are the writer, the artist—the greatest poet of all
the one who, given little, gives back in full, tall
You are the noble, son of the noble and pure
You taught me
You taught me to forgive every slip and flaw
taught me that trials come as faith's own law
You taught me that love's story is moments stacked
small things heaped up—never a single act
My life without you
a scramble of letters with nowhere to land
a scrap of paper between volumes, unmanned
a sip of water that leaves thirst unbroken
a wound that aches with no cure spoken
a fatal illness no doctor can mend
a lonely bird with no song to send
But you gave hope back to me
that the bad has passed as if it never came to be
that every joy approaching has already settled in
that every hardship, by the Merciful's reply, will bend and thin
And know this, my master
you are the sea to a ship's long quest
you are the magic that haunts love's chest
you are the sweetness in every bitter sting
you are the prize that a whole life can bring
My dear, let me tell you something true
don't think you're a man with no faults in view
No—the lover sees the beloved as perfect, whole
no flaw upon him, and leans his weight on that soul
Once love arrives, everything else drifts away
?so how dare we question what the heart has to say
It lies in the hands of the Owner of all unseen
He who shaped hearts and all they hold, not a thing in between
