dear from self by everynell

i love you not only for what you are
but for what i am when I'm with you

i love you not only for what you've made of yourself
but for what you're making of me

i love you for the part of me that you bring out

i love you for
putting your hand into my heaped-up heart
and passing over all the foolish weak things
you can't help but seem dimly there

and drawing out into the light
all the beautiful things
no one else looked quite far enough to fight

i love you because you're helping me to
make of the lumber of my life

not a tavern
but a temple
out of the works of my hand every day

i love you because you've done more than
any career you could have done to make me good
more than any fate
to make me happy

you've done
it without a touch
without a word
without a sight

you've done it by being yourself

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