I loved you from the first

I love you this very second

I’ll love you in the third

degree, like a burn that stays

I love you from this day forth

My love pleads the fifth

to avoid incriminating itself

I love you with an extrasensory sixth

perception

My love stretches into the seventh

inning, taking you out to the ball game

I love you truly as the eighth

commandment, eschewing false witness

As familiar and commanding as the ninth

symphony, this love shakes foundations

If I could express even one tenth

of my love for you

it would be a first

~Andrine de la Rocha

posted 2/18/2011