Irreplacable

 

I tried to find another word

To tell you how I feel

One not so common, often heard

Yet still honest and real

I tried to find a word to spell

The oceans in my heart

And hurricanes within the knell

Of parting’s priceless art

But when I weighed your soft-half grin

The barracks where you let me in

The half-breath longing in your sigh

Wonder that dwarfs time’s little sky

The second look and second mile

Forgiveness uttered in a smile

Something so old yet ever new

Compelling us to remain true

Then, when I tried to compensate

With lesser words something so great

I failed for one cannot improve

The fathoms spelled in this word: Love

© Janet Martin

There is no other way
to properly say,
'I love you'.