I Love You

Heart to heart, hand in hand, in love on life's hard road,

With broken, beaten, shattered, shaken hopes and dreams untold.

Still we stumble forward, heavy steps we take, we two.

But through the raging thunder stroke: forever, I love you.

Face to face, with anger twisted, crumbling to destruction

You crush all until I fall to ceaseless verbal fluxion.

Still I watch my life unravel, still bereft and rue

Yet, through tears I whisper softly, "Darling, I love you."

Whether I lay cherished in your love and warm embrace

Whether I lay at your feet in pieces by your grace

Whether you come near to kiss, or beat me black and blue

Deep inside my open wounds, sweetheart, I love you.

When I say I'm yours alone, I mean I'm your possession,

My life, my will, my peace, my all is yours.  No reservation.

So use me, hate me, hit me, kill me, I give my life to you,

And from my corpse, if that's your will, my darling, I love you.