I Love You

© Black Tangled Heart

Dedicated to Satineladiamant, an incredible writer.

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As your arms wrap me in an impassioned embrace and tears

Dance like fire down my face, burning my cheeks

I know now that I cannot deny my love for you

Your trusting eyes search my visage

Silently conveying the words I have yet to utter

The phrase I have heard moaned in throes of fabricated passion

Intoxicated men slurred it between acerbic kisses

I had never echoed the misused assertion

A proclamation I became indifferent to

And now I know that love has captured me, just as your arms do

For the first time, I speak those words

"I love you."

They are not sung, or whispered, merely affirmed

Amid the pain, unadulterated joy surges into my heart

And a trembling kiss seals our promise.

I love you.

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