Whatever happened to a love song that inspires and doesn’t threaten?
What happened to a love song that’s soft and smooth and simple?
What happened to a love song about the sweet and little things about us?
Why all the mugufied desperate deadly love that scares me away?
Why the predatory love on the brink of suicide?
What’s with the thunder and the firestorms at the thought of me?
That’s not love, it’s lunacy!
What happened to a love that makes my heart beat for you even though you’re 2,000 miles away, and just as fast – but softly - when you’re around.
A love that we need not say a word, because in our being together, we’ve said all there is.
What about a love that keeps you awake, watching me sleep.
A love that’s kind, trusting, a love that gives and keeps on giving ‘cause giving myself to you is all I wanna do?
What about the love that swells like a spring without shooting you like a rocket?
A love that tells me that I would rather not imagine my life without you.
A love that’s about the little things –
The way you close your eyes before you exhale
The dimple on your cheeks just before you laugh
The gleam in your eye, the scent of you
The way you throw back your head when you’re happy; the way you comb your hair and tie your shoe lace
The way you spread your butter on your bread, left to centre and right to centre till it’s all covered.
The note you left on our bed
The wipe of sweat from your face
The straightening of my tie
The frame of our pix.
After all, it’s the little things that make up the big picture of a love that lasts a lifetime.
