He knew that he loved her. From the very moment he laid those dazzling blue eyes on her pale, scented skin. In fact, he didn't just know. He felt. He sensed. He breathed his love for her. He loved her laugh, the way it chimed like a bittersweet melody in his ears. The way she walked, as if toeing over precious glass. The way she talked, in an audible passionate sigh.

It was the kind of love that made you feel nausea, made your chest ache and your stomach churn. Made every muscle in your body tighten and every word you've ever learnt escape your mind. This was true love. A deep, rancid swirling pit of darkness that turned even the strongest of men, into weak pathetic pools of hopelessness.

This kind of love was dangerous.

It made you blind.

Blind to the flaws of the person so infatuated.

It made you deaf.

Deaf to the warnings of those who can see.

It made you numb.

Numb to the barriers of those who can hear.

But worst of all…

It made you invincible.

Invincible to the pain of which those who could feel feared was soon too come.

But if it is true love, if it is honestly true, the blindness, and the deafness, and the numbness dissolve.

Because true love includes all the flaws and the warnings. Because is nobody is truly perfect. Yet, it is the flaws and the warnings that made her perfection in his eyes. She was divine perfection, pure and simplistic.

Because when your in love, one heart beats for two, one smile fuels two hearts and one touch screams a thousand whispered words unspoken.

He knows that with every miss-placed glance, every wrongly placed kiss and every cold embrace, she knows what it is that makes it all ok. She can feel it in the pounding of his chest, the staggering of his breath.

"I love you."

Yet, why is it that, when love is such a swirling, frustrating confused surge of emotion, with so many different meanings, we still only ever utter one word to express it.

"I love you…"

"I cherish you…"

"I adore you…"

"I dote upon you…"

"I respect you…"

"I desire you…"

"I worship you…"

"I commit to you…"

"I think I'm falling…"