If I could count the ways I love you I'd be counting for eternity.

I'd discover numbers that don't yet exist.

Every star would perish, and billions would be born, before I'd finished.

I believe, if I were to measure my love for you, it would outweigh anything else in the universe.

The strongest forces of nature would gaze upon my love with jealousy.

I loved you in secret, grieving the rom...

There would be nothing

Dead words would serve as flies

Withholding no purpose or meaning

Not because I am not skilled with this tongue

But because I hold no intention of saying

That I care for you...

Ten years wasted with one signature

Nine different ways to say stay

Eight months of fighting

Seven times I should have left

Six days of silence

Five types hatred

Four souls left amiss

Three words that don’t matter

Two people walking different paths

One love left behind...

I’d tattoo your hand across my heart

In hopes that you’d find me in the next life

Your brown eyes give me butterflies

While your voice narrates my day

If I count the ways I love you

I’d tell you secrets you never knew

Like how you made me happy cry

When I was feeling down about myself

There’s plenty of reasons why

You know all the right words to say

Even if you sleep a lot and work overtime

You m...

If I count the ways I love you

I’d ask, “Why does it always have to be me?”

Like I did when I was a young girl

Numerous blood draws and surgeries

My friends don’t know my true pain

Not even the ones that know my medical history

I do my best to stay positive despite the outcome

There are treatments but no cure

For what I have

This disease

But someone’s got it worse than me

pain and headaches- just ...

If I could count the ways I love you, I would be here all day.

So I chose the highlights that make me love and cherish you the most.

1. You’re kindhearted - your heart is golden, for those who you are lucky enough to meet you spread kindness and joy. You make their day just by being there and being you.

2. You’re generous - you give to those who are in need, you don’t expect anything in retur...

**I love you. The love you have for me is enduring and forever.******

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**I have failed you day after day, but regardless of that you love me.******

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**Your love for me never changes******

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**The love you have towards me, nothing and nobody can separate ******

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**You are love******

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**Your love is priceless******

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_I could count yet never keep score _

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**_I’d find the numbers endless , each moment a precious infinity as my love for you only expands infinitely _******

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**_If I counted the ways I love you , my dear

From this moment until the end was near _**

**_I’d run out of numbers ; words would fail

For my love for you will always prevail.

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**_Oswald_**

There is so much that I still don’t understand about Rayburn.

How did he feel when his parents died? How vast is his fear of fire? What does he think when he’s annoyed? Does he really love me, even when he avoids the question?

So many questions—questions that I absolutely ignore.

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The meadow is buzzing in the low wind and the afternoon sun. The tall grasses flow with the curre...

To the five boys who make every second of my life worth living. I love you.

**CT4**

When you were little I’d say, with a smirk and a grin, ‘all the girls are sure going to love you!’

You’d smile so wide and with the cutest of lisps, say “cause my eyes are so big and so blue!”

You’re older now but your eyes are the same, though they’ve already seen far too much.

You watched as your mama nearly b...