By Kase
Date: 2002 Dec 12
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You Changed Me

That night, we were lying post- coitus in bed,
sharing a cigarette and pillow talk.
The sex was great, as it always is,
but that night you decided to change my life.
Forever.

As we talked of us, and laughed about our day,
keeping to our routine of lust,
we crushed out our shared smoke
and blew out the light
on our conversation.

As I laid, facing away from you,
your arms wrapped around me from behind,
I jokingly told you a little more
about my screwed-up life, about being
Damaged goods.

You left the light out,
and your arms dropped from my waist.
Your arms pulled me around to face you
and with your hands on my face, eyes looking at mine,
You said, "I love you"

In that one sentence,
you changed me, you said you love me for what I am,
not what I was.
When I found my voice, I still could not speak.
You defined "unconditional"

I love you too.