Love -Roy Croft-

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me that you bring out;
I love you For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over all the foolish, weak things
That you can't help but dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because
You are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern but a temple;
Out of the works of my every day
Not a reproach but a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate could have done
To make me happy...

You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself...