Look at you shine!! In a plaid dress, you’re not playing business woman – you’re the real thing!! At the top of your game! And it’s absolutely staggering how beautiful you are!! You’re roses and calliopes and a softness demure. Even when you’re on fire! There’s a sacred place you reside, underneath it all. You are the magic dust that stars are made of! Jubilantly radiating in the sky! The sky is you! You’re triumphant! You are painstaking beauty, of the softest kind. While four are talking, all eyes are on the fifth! I plead the fifth! I’d drink a fifth! Ah, I wouldn’t if I could! I never miss it. You’re the highest high that nothing in this world can duplicate! That fifth one being you! Instead of aching and yearning, I feel so filled with your love. When I want for nothing, everything is beautiful. Everything is just right. I’m spiritually restored. And somehow I’ve mastered all this simply by looking at you. No, more succinctly, it’s the look you give to me. The woman I would ache for more than anything in this world! And yet you’ve turned a key in me. I’m so happy to adore. I’m so happy when you succeed. You’re dynamite, you’re breathless nights. Starscapes and deliriously fanciful flights! You’re that softest quiet when simply holding your hand, in my mind. The dream never goes past that. Okay, perhaps a gentle kiss on your temple. And my lips never surrender the temperature of your skin, and all the wonderful inhalations! To be so close to you. Ah, the smell of your hair. The weakening of knees, the warmth in the air. It all stops right about there! I never dreamed I had such imagination, but I know *exactly* how it would be! How it would feel. To be near you. And, lucky me! I get to experience you! I live it all the time! Tangentially. It feels you’re a part of me. It’s the sweetest thing of all. You’re the most beautiful one in the world. Tartan and red, and your blues and your golds. This aura all about you! It’s this way you actually glow! You’re springtime wonder on a February day. How do you do it? I mean, well, *What’s it like??* To be you!!! The most beautiful light shining bright! Do you wake up in the morning, and say, “How did I get to be so great?!” Or, do you already know? You’ve worked so tirelessly!! I’m guessing all your life. You do so now! You do it every day! Does it ever wear you down? Do you ever feel tired? Are you ever afraid of missing your alarm when it sounds? People would die to be in your bedroom! No, not for the reason you think! Well, that would be another post! But to sit by your bed all night to simply make sure you awake! On time! Every time! Then sleep throughout the day, dreaming the sweetest dreams of you while you’re flying on air! That’s how people feel. The smallest job you would give would be the greatest joy of all! They’d brag about it while others drop titles like author or lawyer, or CEO or doctor. I’d cry with joy, “I’m her alarm!!” And the other would say, “Um, huh? What did you say??” “I wake her up!!” You’ve awakened me inside! It’s the most brilliant thing!! It’s the greatest job in the world!! Because it something of her!! I don’t get much sleep. A little pea protein and some peppermint tea will do. This unhip guy is woke! Oh, how you’ve awakened me! It’s all in the air with you. You’re the most beautiful girl in the world. I love your voice! Oh, I do! So much so!! The tonal qualities, and all the sounds you make, these things that are your own. I’ve grown so accustomed to you, in the most heart-stopping of ways. The only trouble is I never hear you the first time! I’m lost in your sound and all the magic you provide. I have to go back for another go-round to process all the brilliance that is you. I’m afraid I’d get caught, saying “Hm-hmmm” as you talk! Between these silent “Wows.” And you’d say, “You didn’t hear a word I said, did you?” And I gush, “I’m sorry!!!” I was just so lost in your eyes. You’re the kind where even a non-marrying guy would answer your questions with, “I do.” Just for the exhilarating secret thrill of trying it out on you!! While looking in your eyes. You capture hearts so easily, when so little did before. And I’m afraid they’re yours forever. If you ever find a use for them, they’d jump at any job! They’d sweep a broom! They’d mop the floor! They’d be your personal alarm! Any job would be taken as if it is the most important work in the world! It is. Because it’s you. What could the world have in store that would ever top that? Not to challenge the divine, but I know nothing ever would. You’re starlight. You’re magic. Oh, what is it like when you’re off the clock? Are you grouchy? A demanding diva who orders people around?? Do you sit glumly with no makeup and scratch at your beautiful nose?? I’m afraid I’m Nicholas Cage and you’re Cher in “Moonstruck!” And you holler, “Snap out of it!!” to me! No matter what I could see, you only become more beloved in a heart. If there’s a mortal side to you, I’d love the human as much as the star. Because it’s all you. You see, you at your worst only has a reverse effect!! You can do no wrong. Even if I weren’t to agree, you’re always beautiful to me. Well, that’s how people feel. About you. Because you are magic they always wanted to believe in when they never saw anything to believe in before. And you light them up inside like a Christmas tree! Just by walking in the door! It’s in the energy with you. There is nothing like the fantasy of knowing you. It comes with all benefits built in! I feel so much love and magic for you, it feels as if there’s nothing missing. You’re warmth on a winter’s day. You’re quiet time when I collect what to say. In my mind and in my heart. You’re deep, deep breaths when I find I’ve forgotten to breathe! Because you were in the room. Even when you’ve gone – or, well, standing to the side so as not to be seen!!  – this scintillating buzz hovers in the air. Like a live wire dancing around! Look out! Here she comes! I could be so close to another. If I got any closer I’d be in back of them, as Groucho liked to say. And the someone could be wonderful, but only you create that buzz. It comes on full barrel! Full steam ahead! And bounces all around inside of me! All the lights and the sounds!!! Then you roll on offa me! And everywhere I look I’m spilling this light! Because I got to see *you!* Wonderful, magical you!! You’re new paradigms and nursery rhymes and seeing you in a library. The kind where people say, “Shhh!!!!” In a nook among the bookshelves, lost in the girl that is you. On a day you wear your glasses, buried in your books. In a plaid dress, and brushing your hair back from your shoulders and face, but it wants to return to the same place. To be closer to you. Just like everyone in the world! If I got any closer you’d be in front of me, and in back of me, and everywhere inside! The joy of you is that it feels that way, anyway! Every day! No matter the distance, in my heart you always reside. You are so staggeringly beautiful. It’s hard to find the words. So it comes down to hmmmms, and shhhh-es! and silent wows. That will do. Your beauty goes beyond all chatter. It’s celebrated in the most silent of places. You quiet my mind, and you’re the love in my heart. You cast a spell on me all the time. The last one never wore off, but here comes another one, all the same. You light the match that lights the flame that runs the whole show. You’re an inexhaustible source. Oh, how I love you so. I hope you’re gracious when somebody stumbles around you today. I hope you’re forgiving when they ask you to repeat yourself for a second time. You must know they’re all lost in a cloud. And they’re the luckiest souls in the world. Because they got to see you. You’re never not beautiful. You are never not loved. You’re the very magic I breathe in, you’re the love I breathe out. You’re the most beautiful woman in the world. And that will never change. ❤️