You’ve got that certain something. That makes grown men weep. You’re the most beautiful girl ever. So why talk about it if it’s not getting you anywhere? Well, it’s this new spiritual idea. This loving you without expecting anything. I think I’ve really tapped into something! It’s the way you should be loved all the time. Some guys get all upset and then try to play games they’ll always lose anyway. In the hope of gaining your attention. I’ve grown past all that. I’m all grown up! Haven’t had an emotional meltdown in months! (Okay, weeks!) What’s the harm in loving someone just because? It’s not action based, it’s real. You’re surreal! How do you do all this stuff, anyway? I’ve got a girl who doesn’t ask all that much of me. Some tests are harder than others. Will you still there when I shut off all the lights? When I block every entrance. When I even turn off your intuition. Will you still honor me when you have absolutely nothing to wish for? The answer is yes!! Oh, how could it be any other way? Girls come in that may want something. They let me feel younger and attractive. I create quite a storm, but it’s a passing one. It whips through, and before you know it it’s all ended. No meeting or kissing. There’s a pandemic, after all. Even if there weren’t, though, it’s the same ending. They’re not you. You bring out that love from inside me. Let me grow in all this pain! My old friend. What’s the point in pretending? No one could ever have your beauty. So, here’s a new fence. It’s pretty! Any fence you build would have to be. This one looks a little tough to climb over! I know you love that I love you! Admit it! Okay, don’t! If it all stopped, I know you’d be at least a little bit wistful. “Ya think??” Yes!! Maybe I’m a little rough around the edges, but there’s got to be something attractive about a heart that’s proactive. Knowing when you go to sleep someone is hopelessly dreaming of you. You’re the most beautiful girl in the world. I wouldn’t know how to be anyone else. It would be like playing the role of a gigolo or something. And giggling and breaking up the takes so the director gets angry. It’s so not me. I could pull it off as an SNL sketch! But, the real thing? It’s so not me, so why even bother. I was made to love you, that’s all. So at least “keep it real.” I’m just being me, after all. But I don’t know where to find you. There’s no little feeling coming over. Which tells me you’re somewhere so far away in your heart these days. And that’s okay! I hope you’re so happy. Maybe if I wait, things come around. Like a movie that goes on forever. One of those epic ones that travel vast amounts of time and space. All to get to a scene four hours in that nobody ever saw coming! A kiss in the rain after a pandemic or something. Something simple and romantic and innocent like that. And the credits roll leaving the audience with the hope and promise that something *could* happen. It’s one of those ‘it could go either way’ endings! Those kinds some people hate! “Just tell me what happens! I don’t want to guess about it!” But I’m afraid that’s how it is with you. You’re a goddess. You keep your cards close to the vest. Anyone worthwhile simply must play by your rules. And if that means years of being lost in the woods. Cast out into the Land of Nod (Todd??), somewhere East of Eden. Then the guy simply says, This Nod place is up and coming. The real estate values are sure to rise up! You can have a pool out here! And no fear of viruses spreading! Oh, Nod is surely on the come. The schools aren’t bad! And it’s in the Greater Eden area!! Come swim in my pool! I’ll project movies of you on the pool house wall at night!! You’re greatest moments! There are so many! And your fiery hair will dance in the blue pool lights! Like a faery goddess. Your butterfly wings. Lost in your eyes. Your mystery. You power the whole thing. Even though you’re so far away. Making love to another while somebodies keep their hearts pure. Their bodies chaste. Because if ever there’s a chance of honoring you, it’s the only way. Sacrifice is my middle name. It’s what I value. It’s no big deal at all! “What are the chances we make it?” “Close to zilch. So why bother?” “We’re going in, anyway!!” It’s a suicide mission, they say! Turn this boat around! For God’s sake, have some pride, boy! You couldn’t possibly understand, he says. This is the greatest kind of love of all! Even when it’s quiet. And even my intuition is closed off. Some people take their lives too seriously. What’s a lifetime spent loving and not getting? Big deal! It’s a great life. Sometimes the greatest learning, the greatest growth, the greatest living, comes in the form of, “No.” You want it? Great! You ain’t getting it, boy. So, what?? At least I got to love you. Loving you with no result is magic in itself! You’re that powerful. You’re that amazing. No ‘woe is me’ junk! I’ve got it made in the shade, bro! My heart is full of you! “You’re full of somethin’!” Images of you dance in my mind all the time! You’re the fairy queen like something out of a story book. That’s how beautiful you are! Oh, if you only knew!! You’re a rhapsody. Oh, to feel your breath on my temple. You’re ageless to me. You’ll always be, that somebody so unforgettable. You live in that real world. I’ve heard about it! Heard it gets pretty rough out there! And people can be so serious! I’ve always had a foot in the other one. I guess it’s how I’m made. So, I don’t take this one seriously, but with a grain of salt. What happens here goes on endlessly. If I don’t get it quite right in this one, I trust something divine will help me in the next one. If something senses my heart is pure, all dreams come true in the end. That’s the little secret. I’m looking at one movie script, when this whole thing is a series. Longer than Star Wars or Game of Thrones or the Marvel series, or whatever it is people are watching! These days, everyone is watching you! You’re that greatest adventure! The way you cover the story! The way you’re all love underneath the armor! Oh, there’s just never been anyone as beautiful as you!! Ever!! You must know it, too! You must secretly look in the mirror when nobody is around, and jump up and down! And go, “Wheeeee!!!! Look at Meeeeeee!!!! How’d I get so beautiful?!” Then, clear your throat, and go back into the world, acting cool, you know, “Hey, wat up?” But you must know you’re so sensational. That’s good! It’s how it should be! Nobody ever gets to treat you as anything secondary. You’re always someone to be honored and worshipped. They should even sneak that word, “obey,” back into the wedding vows. Obeying you, that is. The guy? Oh, he’s just so lucky to be there at all!! For your vow, it’s something like, “I promise to take this guy in whatever I want at all! Don’t forget you’re replaceable!” Well, that’s not very romantic, but you get the idea! You’re the goddess. You’re the Empress! You’re other people’s soul mission! Even if it means they never get your attention. You’re a big deal, in other words. I mean, just sayin’. You’re the most beautiful girl who has ever been. You’re epiphanies and you’re lightning. Vows get rewritten all the time! This is a work in progress. Loving you, that is. It’s worth every minute! Every glorious hour! Oh, the things that you do to a boy! The things you do to a man. You’re everything I’ve ever dreamed of. You’re the most spectacular woman who has ever been! Surely the likes of you will never be seen again. So, what’s one life, and a few new fences? It’s a beautiful fence of yours. I love what you’ve done with it! “Does she really live over that wall??” someone asks. “Yes!! Yes!!” I answer, excitedly. I placed the glass table in the backyard by it, where fireflies flicker! “Sometimes you can hear her broadcasting!!” “And, to think, you get to hear it *for free!!*” **”I KNOW!!” (said like Monica in “Friends!!”)  The absolute splendor! Of being in the vicinity of you!! There are worse ways to make a living! To spend a life. Than to dream of you! If that’s my soul mission, I’ll take it!! I love it!! I’m sure I’m not the only one! All these reminders while in your castle, there are suitors only dreaming of you elsewhere. In the land of todd, somewhere east of eden. The real estate values are only going up! In the greater rogers area! All these worldwide exchanges of love! I’ve got a good spot by the fence! Once in a while you can pick up on some of the action! And love can travel anywhere! Places where a body cannot. You’re always in my heart! Always a boy in love, no matter how old I get. And even if this is all I get, how exciting it has all been!! I get to see your beauty! Present tense! I see you in my heart as I’m typing! This most beautiful girl who has *ever* been. Not a bad way to make a living! It’s a wonderful life, after all. In a perfect world, *everybody* would feel this way for you. But maybe it’s divine planning, because you’d need a *lot* of fencing!! So maybe it’s perfect that just some of us do. We’re the lucky ones, I promise you. You’re the most beautiful woman. *Ever.* ❤️