Cascade, Written 10/11/13

Cascade, Written 10/11/13

I like to think I do my best to tell you

Just how special you are to me

every time that I'm with you.

Yet somehow, I can't seem to say enough throughout the day

about all the little things that I notice

over and over again.

I rediscover them each time with the same joy

Pure and brilliant happiness gleaned from each of your smiles.
Yet the words often seem unrefined

or perhaps, just too special for others to hear.

So as we lie alone, I offer you

that which I have: a cascade of compliments.

I send them forth to you as beautiful truths
bounding between kisses – at first, stream water

sheening over the tiny pebbles in rivulets

that slowly, but confident as a river must be ,

flow into rapids, where the waters of a once delicate stream
now batter the unmoving rocks in a spectacle of white mist

biting and refreshing and invigorating as it crosses your face

resolving in a glorious waterfall – breathtaking to all who behold it

as it winds to an end, to rest, as it started, at peace.