Let's Talk About Love # 8 Perfect

I tried to find another word

To tell you how I feel

One not so plain and often heard

Yet genuine and real

I tried to find a word to tell

These fathoms in my soul

Vocabulary that could spell

In one word, living’s Whole

…but when I weighed your soft-half grin

And heart-parts where you let me in

The kind contentment in your sigh

Wonder that dwarfs time’s little sky

The second look and second mile

Forgiveness uttered in a smile

Of things ancient yet ever new

Life’s proof of what is good and true

…then,

When I tried to compensate

With lesser word something so great

I failed for one cannot improve

On these four letters which spell: Love

© Janet Martin