IS LOVE ❤

❤ IS LOVE ❤

I LOVE YOU

Not only for what you are,

but for what I am when I am with you.

I LOVE YOU

Not only for what you have made of yourself,

but for what you are making of me.

I LOVE YOU

For putting your hand into my heaped-up heart

and passing over all the foolish, 

weak things that you can’t help dimly seeing there,

and for drawing out into the light

all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.

I LOVE YOU

For the part of me that you bring out.

I LOVE YOU 

Because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life,

Not a tavern but a temple;

Out of the works of my every day,

Not a reproach but a song.

I LOVE YOU

Because you have done more than any creed 

could have done to make me good

And more than any fate could have done to make me happy.

You have done it

without a touch,

without a word,

without a sign.

You have done it by being yourself.

Perhaps that is what being a friend means, 
After all.