By terry
Date: 17 August 2000
Whenever You Need My Love (It Is There)
As the sea pounds the shore,
Beating shell and stone into sand,
So it is with the force of my love;
Forever surging across time’s beach
Eroding every obstacle in its path
That would dare keep me from you.
You asked how long I would love you.
And without thought,
Nor delay
I answered,
I will love you forever.
You see…
To me love is not finite.
Like a pie to be sliced throughout my life,
Sharing a slice here and there
A nibble to the red-haired beauty who stole my heart in the fifth grade.
A small bite to Debbie
Who eased my greatest fear in the world.
By saying yes
When I asked her to the fall banquet
In the ninth grade.
And one heaping big portion to Becky.
Who not only gave me her love
Over a summer of heated bliss,
But also gave me her virginity
As she gained mine
In an act of teenage passion
Masquerading as forever love.
When in reality
It was simply puppy passion
Attempting something greater.
To me, love is infinite,
More akin to a well
With an unending source
Of pure, sweet emotion
That when you dip into,
Immerse yourself fully and drink from through every pore of your body,
You find the level instantly renewed,
And ready to be reveled in again and again.
For by its very nature
The very act of giving love is renewing
Producing an equal amount as an equitable reaction
To the physics of love’s universe.
So when I say I love you forever
I mean just that.
The gift of my love
Will never diminish throughout the months and years and centuries
It may be added to immeasurably.
But it will never diminish
Never grow less
Nor go away.
As never means never and forever means forever.
And love encompasses all
As it flows through my heart to you.
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