I Love You

I love you
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am when
I am with
you.
I love you
For the part of me that you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand into my heaped~up heart
And passing over all the foolish, weak things
that you can't help dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out into the light
All the beautiful belongings that no one else
Had looked quite far enough to find.
I love you because you are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life not a tavern
but a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not every day
But a song......