All of my ability
All the words I can master
The language I use so easily
The verses that I fashion so very beautifully
They are as nothing before you
They are without sound
Without form or substance
Without meaning
When you are standing near me
Arm around waist
Hip against thigh
Cheek to throat
Lips to flesh
When you are front and center
When the house lights go up
And you are everyone else�s supporting role
You are nothing less than my leading lady

All my feelings
All the things I�ve known all my life
The depth of them without measure
The intensity that I harness so precariously
It is ripped from my hands when you come round
I feel as though I will die for being so alive
I cannot contain my satisfaction at your entrance
Cannot, will not hold back
It pushes me over every edge I come to
It does things to me as yet unknown, undefined yet concrete
Emotion without name or shape or comparison
So complete in it�s chaotic overwhelming perfection
When you are leaning close enough to smell your sweat
So I may whisper overtures in your ear sickly sweet
All the while I just want to kiss your neck, rip it open
I can�t help but smile with my teeth...
For all that life may throw at me
For all that has come before us and ours and we
For all that will be from this point on
Nothing can stir me from my reveries so readily

As your simple smile and impassioned yet innocent kiss

So many days wasted on better than nothing
So many nights lost to settling for good enough
For my ignorance of you the living ideal
For taking so long to find you when you were unmistakable
When you were right next to me tapping your foot

In a quarter of a century I've held on to nothing save pain
In all of my time all my squandered moments
I have only just now
Been given the ability to breathe
I am not given to grand promise
At least not to keeping them
Yet I want to promise you the world and deliver
To spoil you with an old dog of a heart's new tricks

I wish to be as constant to you as sorrow
I want to be as unavoidable as dying
Yet more welcomed than any past love or spring day
I will become as sure a thing as pain
A thing consuming as a good old-fashioned heartbreak

No more empty nights questioning worth and value
For either one of us my darling it will be distant memory
Never again for this life's course will you cry in isolation
Not another dark lonely midnight to walk through hollow
When you wake I will be there like your past-due bills
When you curl up at night it will be against my side alone
When you walk through the most difficult things to come
I will be with you should you wish it so

No one will stand between me and keeping that promise
No one will stop me from loving you, not even you
Should it come to it dear, I will fight for your honor and love
Even if you are the one I have to fight, to the death...

...do us part.