I love You

You're sleeping, lost inside your dreams that drift and wander free The rain is falling soft outside, and only I'm awake to see I'm thinking of the road we walked, the years already gone And all the mornings still ahead that we'll keep building on I know the way you breathe at night, that quiet, gentle sound I know the way you laugh out loud when something silly comes around I know the things that make you cry, the fears you rarely name I know the version no one sees — and I would choose her just the same I love you, more than I know how to say out loud You are the happiness of my days, the light behind every cloud I love you, and this is not a dream I'll wake from soon You are the scent of early May, you are my afternoon Love me too, so I'm no longer standing here alone You are my home inside a world too wide to face on my own I love you more than yesterday and less than I will tomorrow You are my wife, and I am yours — in joy and in sorrow You're sleeping and I watch the rise and fall of your slow breath And think about how ordinary days are what we'll miss at death Not grand adventures, not the peaks — just this, just you, just here The coffee cooling on the sill, the radio, your hair I know the names you answer to, the ones only I use I know the books stacked by your side, the ones you always choose I know the way you hold your cup, the way you greet the dawn I know which parts of you stay quiet and which ones carry on I love you, more than I know how to say out loud You are the happiness of my days, the light behind every cloud I love you, and this is not a dream I'll wake from soon You are the scent of early May, you are my afternoon Love me too, so I'm no longer standing here alone You are my home inside a world too wide to face on my own I love you more than yesterday and less than I will tomorrow You are my wife, and I am yours — in joy and in sorrow Two people in this enormous world Who want to leave something behind Something beautiful, something worth keeping That the trees will hold in their rings That the river will carry forward That the earth will remember And the people who come after us Will feel without knowing why — That something true was here That someone was deeply, quietly loved You're sleeping, and I'm grateful for the silence and the rain For all the years we've already lived and all that still remain I wasn't always easy, you weren't always sure But here we are — still choosing this, still knocking on this door Wise and gentle, mine in every sense I've ever known The woman I had waited for before I even knew I found her in the ordinary light of waking next to you I love you, more than I know how to say out loud You are the happiness of my days, the light behind every cloud I love you, and this is not a dream I'll wake from soon You are the scent of early May, you are my afternoon Love me too, so I'm no longer standing here alone You are my home inside a world too wide to face on my own I love you more than yesterday and less than I will tomorrow You are my wife, and I am yours — forever, endlessly, wholly You're sleeping And I love you more than yesterday And less than I will tomorrow Sleep well, my love I'll still be here when you wake