To: Cary, IL

Maybe I'm Afraid of losing again.
That's why I grip on you so tight,
the way I monitor
every move.

I don't know
anything but the tempo
your heart beats,
and the length of your smile,
the exact placement dark
bangs place across your forehead.

I love you
yes, I said it.
I tell it to you everyday.

My heart,
tells it to you everyday.
It sends it
as a message through the wires
of my veins.

Yes, I am fully aware of
every love poem
and how the word
'love'
is overused.
But I mean it how they meant it
in the past.

Where "I love you" meant I would take you out to dinner.
Where "I love you" meant I would drive 30 minutes after work to watch TV.
Where "I love you" meant I would just stare blankly into your pupils.

I can ramble
and say how your sense of humor always brightens me up
or
how time moves so fast when we are together.

But all I can end this with is that my name is
Samuel David Rosen
and yours,
Carly Christina Sullivan.