I love you, that is my first thought as I inventory
all the things around me that my heart loves.
I love things like surprise messages from friends
and forehead kisses accompanied by bear hugs,
warm laundry, wet puppy noses and spring rain.

I love waking up and then realizing
you still have plenty of time to sleep in.
I love it even more when I am sleepily
tangled in the sheets with my lover.

I love when people are too drunk
and they are drunk crying and I know they
cannot be anything but honest
in that sloppy drunk usually public moment.
Laughing as they claim to be a cupcake.

I love the look of awe in people’s eyes
when they realize they are falling in love.
I love to be the one on top during sex
and looking down at my lover to see the
look of pure pleasure in their lustful eyes.

I love the cadence of conversation as
the process of falling begins and you want
to know every detail of your lover's life.
Many of these pillow time talks occur as you
open the vault to the deepest parts of you,
the parts only love can uncover from hiding.
Your heart a sponge absorbing every detail.

I love the faraway look of another time as one
tells you of loves gone but never forgotten.
I love the way people drift to a different place
when they are touched by the song playing.
The look in people’s eyes as they revisit a memory.

I fall in love with random people and their
genuinely honest moments all the time.
I fall in love in the midst of their breakdowns
and tear smeared once perfect makeup.
I love when friend share their most private
daydreams only a best friend would be privy to.

I love that God gave me the ultimate chance
to learn the difference in living and being alive.

This allowed me to live in the moment and be
fully aware that even the smallest moments count,
such as love seen in the promises of a new sunrise.

I love the way your heart knows long before
your brain does which choice is right for you.
Even when it is not the easiest choice to make.
I love do overs and fresh starts because
no matter where we make a wrong turn,
life hands us yet another second chance.

I love dancing when no one is watching you,
the smell of ocean air and the feel of hot sand,
racing heartbeats felt before sharing a first kiss
and I love the very moment when sex begins.

When I close my eyes at night and say
"Thank You" for one more beautiful day,
I fall in love with you all over again in that moment.
You unknowingly make everyday of my life
more beautiful just by your presence in it.
You are light where there was once dark.
You hold me despite my broken edges with
no regard to the danger of cutting yourself.

I love the way that being filled with your love
gives me the inner courage to fight harder.
You may not know but when my old friend pain
rears it's head and I grip the sheets desperate,
your beautiful words are the only remedy for it.

If we only open our eyes we will see how we are
surrounded by love even in our darkest hour.
The list of things I love could go on for pages
but the list will always start with your name.

True love is just too beautiful and fluid
to ever put into black and white static words.
People, places, things and memories fill us with love.
So today I am simply asking, what do you love?