The Wait

Where were you when my first frail attempts at youthful love were casually 
shattered against the rocks of cruel reality.
Or the first time another used my affections to gain their desires only to 
slip out like a thief in the night answering to none.
These harsh times were before we met and for this I am thankful for how can 
anyone truly love before they have had their heartbreaks of the past healed 
and perhaps broken again.
It is with these pains already suffered that enables me to truly embrace my 
love for you .
I come to love not as a fresh untried mount who would shy at the first heated 
fray in the battle for love
But as an older more seasoned warhorse in loves army, bold yet wary of the 
path ahead never backing down but steadfast in my desires.
Quick to embrace the love I have found yet careful to cup it gently to me 
lest I crush it or treat it lightly it is a sight to behold.
The years have brought me to the understanding that love is constantly 
flowing and changing, never the same in reflection or in spirit.
So I first seek your friendship and work towards your love, for should our 
combined love end our friendship shall remain a solid foundation to live our 
lives upon.
I asked where you were when I stumbled through love and life slowly finding 
my footing, becoming more secure in my grip and in my thoughts on love.
Where were you? You were wisely waiting for me to grow into the man who could 
truly love you with the respect and the steady emotion of a man who knows his 
heart, both it's weakness' and it's strengths.
Why did you wait till now to come into my ordered life, moving my heart as 
one would a stick of furniture to a better position?
Could it be you were waiting till I knew my wants and desires and had the 
knowledge to readily obtain the same.
Or could it be that it was simply the time that fate chose for us haven given 
each our past pains to guide us both to a more wondrous and joyous love that 
could withstand the Hordes about us and protect us from the barbs of well 
meaning friends.
Yes the time is now, the love is strong, your lips are desire, your eyes my 
mirror, every part of you soars with passion of which I hope to equal.
It was worth the wait!!