A Love Poem from My Text Message Outbox
How do I love you?
Let me count the ways...
I love you to the height and depth my soul can reach.
I love you like my last pancake.
My heart is melted,
unto the likeness of butter,
atop your last pancake.
I love you jealously,
with a love like a girl has
for her brother's silly bands.
I long for you
like a toddler for his stuffed cat
I miss you
like a new mother misses her sleep.
As a crying baby
left in her swing alone
I want your arms around me.
Your empty side of the bed
stings like being snapped by a rubber snake
verily,
even like a whiffle bat to the face.
Comfort me with raisins,
cheerios and fishy crackers
for I am faint with love.
My love for you knows no limits,
like a fat man at Sam's Club
like a child with scotch tape
even as an old dutch woman
at a sample booth.
You have filled my life with joy
as a toddler who runs his own bath water
It overflows from inside me
to the home around us.
