At first recognition, first meeting,
You were a closed door.
Locked away by a long-term relationship,
Locked away by a family tie this tattered link sheltered
in.

But with eyes that maintain that remarkable sparkle at
each passing shot,
Each enthralling glimpse may leave any heart heavy with
the weight of your beauty
It is challenging when learning, when knowing
The distance from that surface these eyes were meant to
conceal.

But to be offered a peek inside,
Inside a room where the walls are held up by compassion,
By a depth of color where the intensity of your heart and
love
Lifts and holds a semblance of a feeling that I could have
for others has been my greatest declaration.

To grasp the concept of learning to feel from you
Has been the most substantial gift you have and could have
ever offered to give to me.
Although uncertain, because you are riddled with mystery
as to where your heart lies,
You are the most beautiful thing I keep inside my heart.

And even though instruments cannot measure your worth
to me,
Whether man-made soft placeessments,
Whether the evaluations of calculations that I have built
inside my head and maintained in my heart.
I trust that the love we share, that we can build, is largely
the most substantial I could ever envision.