"the true love of my life"

let me tell you the words in my heart

that i've been meaning to say

years before you stepped into my life

how you were always special to me

when your name was a mere whisper in the wind

how i've waited to see your face emerge

from a future i could not see

and touch your promising little hands

to feel them clasp my own

you've been the center of my universe

the reason i push on when hope has forgotten me

i would give up all given to me

so that you could

see the summer sun awaken

hear a nightingale's lullaby

feel the buoyancy of true love

even though i never knew you

i'd write a million words

to find the phrase that'd make you smile

a million more i'd write

so that you would laugh aloud

every night i'd read you a story

about people, places, and things

you've yet to know of -- or to have seen --

to see the wonder on your face

for i've always thought the world of you

i'll hold your hand every step of your life

and, though it pains me, let go should you ask

i'll protect you from the monsters

until you're ready to fight them yourself

i'll stand by your side though

all else abandon you

for you are the true love of my life

who i've known before you were born

and the day you come into this world

when you are more than a mere dream in my mind

and i hear you crying your first tears

i'll cry a thousand tears of my own

for the true love of my life

has finally come home