• Read it as a poem.
• Read it as a rhyme.
• Read it as a song in 2/4 time.
• Read it through until the end.
• It’s just my way
• To try and explain
• What’s going on with me again.

How much do you love me?

• I’m not asking for the depth of the ocean,
• Nor the breadth of the sky.
• Nor the height of the mountaintop that towers so high.
• Just…

How much do you love me?

• I live in fear from day to day
• Of hearing you say, “Three!”
• One word to send me far away
• When you’ve lost your love for me.

• I break a glass.
• I burn a meal.
• I have no class
• But my tears are real.

How much do you love me?

• Do you love me enough to push me through places where I fear to go?
• Do you love me enough to pull me through places where I balk and slow?
• Do you love me enough to keep me at your side through thick and thin?
• It’s the bottom of the ninth.
• The bat is shaking in my hand.
• Do you love me enough to keep me, although I may strike out again?

• If the answer is yes
• I must confess
• As to how much I love you.
• And hope you can see within my heart
• That my words are true.

How much do you love me?

• I know I may have forfeited
• The chance to share your name.
• I know I may never be
• More than a sub in your game.

• Still I love you enough to stay with you, wherever you take the team.
• I love you enough to stay at your side until the end of the dream.
• I love you enough to live with the fear of hearing the dreaded word three.
• I love you enough to stay at your side, wherever your side might be.

How much do you love me?

• The answer becomes non-essential.
• There’s really no need to know.
• For I will love you as long as I stay
• With a love that will stay, if ever I go.
• But still it would be so nice to know…

How much do you love me?

The road lay in dusky darkness,
The scent of night hung heavy in the air.
My path obscured, I hid in fear,
Looked up and you were there.

The meadow was bathed in moonlight.
Fragrant wild flowers filled the musky air
Aroused by sensuous touch, I woke in fear,
Looked up and you were there.

I lie down in dusky darkness.
The scent of sex hangs heavy in the air
My body opens to your touch, no fear.
I know when I look up you will be there.

she would live in your shadow
let it shield her from the sun’s glaring light.
let it wrap her in the darkness of the night
as she lies in the hollow of your shoulder
wanting nothing more than you to hold her
as she lives in your shadow.

she would bask in your brilliance.
let her warmth come from the fire in your eyes.
let the light of your love guide her, mesmerized
as she moves to the heat you generate
wanting only the touch that you can create
as she basks in your brilliance.