I've written so many words.

      I've written and read so many stories about love.

     I've dreamt about it for so long.

     I never would have imagined that you would teach me the true meaning of attraction.

     You have taught me the difference between lust and love.

     In the past I thought that I had love.

     I thought this all consuming feeling that had washed over me,

     Certainly meant that I was falling.

     But I was confused because I didn't know what lead to the fall.

     I tried asking myself multiple times,

     What it was about him that I loved.

     A simple question one would think,

     But I had no real answer.

     It is only now,

     After knowing you,

     That I realize that I mistook lust for love.

      Because when I think of you and the reasons that I feel the way I do,

     There's no confusion.

     I've chosen to care for you for specific reasons.

     For the shared interests and goals.

     For the way you make me laugh.

     For the way you help me open up,

     And the way that you are equally open and vulnerable.

     You taught me that love is in part a choice.

     A choice to work for it because you want is so bad.

     Even if this kind of love isn't the most conventional,

    It means more than any other emotion I've encountered with another.

     Most of all you've shown me the way,

     That an emotional connection can triple the physical.

     Because a single word spoken by your lips,

     Surpasses any touch that another could bestow upon me.