perfection
i struggle to fall asleep.
after our late-night discussions,
i lay in bed admiring every word
exchanged between us.
you know
i need darkness to sleep.
i try so hard to not scare the dark away;
but i cannot help but glow.
this is your doing.
the sun wishes it could compete with me.
i shine so uncontrollably bright.
i bring about blinding light
to all my shadowy days.
just because you have sparked a flame
i fail to conceal.
i was about to drown.
i felt my face completely submerging
into the chilling water.
i felt myself slowly sinking
to the depths of the
mariana trench of my mind.
but you,
as my life guard,
gave me a hand
and pulled me back to the day.
i was out of breath,
gasping for that sweet taste of life.
because of you,
i am able to re-experience that.
please understand,
there is no doubt.
you were and are the gift
God gave to me.
i prayed for days.
i prayed for someone
to replace the heathen
i had been in love with.
so in walked an angel.
i rejoice,
thanking the good Lord for you.
you mean so much to me;
for, you are the answer to all my prayers.
i cannot let you know right now;
but i think:
you are perfection.
truly,
everything.
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"Because God's gifts
put man's best dreams
to shame."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning