All of the Reasons

I’ve spent so many hours

thinking about why I love you

So many lines and poems

But no poem is ever right

I won’t ever get you right, actually

Impossible to overstate

Impossible to understate

But it actually isn’t even hard, loving you

Loving you is the simplest thing

I’ve ever done

So simple

that I didn’t even realize I was in love

until I was knee-deep

10 ft. under

and my socks were soiled with all of the love

I love you

and I know why

I love you because you are a good person to love

I love you because when I tell you something special

you know it’s special

And you remember it

a long, long time

You say,

Remember when

you told me something special

And both of us remember

When I think something is important

You think it’s important too

We have good ideas

When I say something funny, you laugh

I think I’m funny and you think I’m funny too

I love you because you know where I’m ticklish

And you don’t tickle me there except just a little tiny bit sometimes

But if you do, then I know where to tickle you too

You know how to be silly

You are always silly

I’ve never met anybody sillier than you

I love you because you know when it’s time to stop being silly

Maybe the day after tomorrow

Maybe never

Too late, quarter past silly

Sometimes, we don’t say a word

but I can hear everything you mean

I love that about you

I love you because you really love me too

You really love me

Don’t you

And I really love you back

and you love me back and I love you back

and that’s the way we keep on going every day

If you have to go away

I go away with you

You don’t just say

Well see you around sometime

I love you a lot because of that

Because we go away together

And if I get lost

then you are the one

that is yelling for me

You are always the one

I love you because when I am feeling sad

you don’t always cheer me up right away

You know I need a minute

I love you because if I am mad at you

then you are hardly ever mad at me

and it’s awful when I’m mad and you’re not

So I can never stay mad

I love you because if I think I am going to throw up

then you are really sorry

you say maybe it was something you ate

you say the same thing happened to me one time

and the same thing did

so you know how to love me

If we ever broke our arms

then it would be fun to have a broken arm

Think of it

I tell you about mine and you tell me about yours

We are both sorry

We show everybody

And they all wish they had a broken arm too

I love you and I don’t always know why but

everything that happens is nicer with you

I can’t remember when I didn’t love you

It must have been lonesome then

I love you because

because

because

I forget why I love you but I do

So many reasons

On the 4^th of July I love you because it’s the 4^th of July

On the 5^th of July I love you too

And you always want to celebrate

Because together we are a holiday

We are a party

We are a WHOLE PARADE

See what I mean?

Even if it was the 999^th of July

Even if it was August

Even if it was way down at the bottom of October

Or the boring of March

I would go on loving you

and you would go on loving me

Over and over again

That’s how it would happen every time

I don’t know why

I guess I just love you because I love you

I love you

In all the simplicity

In all of the grandeur

I love you