<span style="color: #003366;">There are beautiful thoughts that only come to my mind when I think about you</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">And when I think about you, only beautiful thoughts come to mind.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Darling, this love is not blind</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">But, it turns out, I am.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I can only trace traits of beauty from your flaws.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Your imperfect nose,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Your naturally crooked eyebrows,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Your not so pretty toes.</span>

<span style="color: #003366;">In a world where you've been conditioned to think your reflection is the farthest thing from perfection -</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Know, you come pretty close;</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">As close as I want to be with you,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Tight as a tide tied to the ocean.</span>

<span style="color: #003366;">My darling, you are perfection</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">The crown of creation.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I'd be a fool not to make the God that created you the centre of my attention.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Such an able God can undoubtedly do anything.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I hear Him walking on air-waves every time you open your mouth to sing.</span>

<span style="color: #003366;">When He turned water into wine, the water did not disappear</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">It was intertwined with mine thoughts of you</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">And turned into salty sea water that streams down my cheeks at every thought of you.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Many times, this God,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">He speaks to me,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">In my dreams, through His word</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Through your heart, sometimes even through art.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I've heard your name escape His lips about a thousand times,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">But, being dull of hearing and often inattentive,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I am hardly ever certain of the instructions.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">It proves how much more time I need to spend with Him</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Before even desiring to spend forever with a jewel precious to Him as you are.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">If ever He permits us to be, I pray that you allow the clumsy words staggering out of my trembling lips into your heart,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I pray that they stay there,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">And my lips never grow tired of uttering them,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Or become too eloquent at the art of spoken word</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">Lest the words spoken lose meaning and promises made become broken.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">For now, my darling,</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I'll wait impatiently and listen more attentively when God speaks.</span>
<span style="color: #003366;">I pray you do too.</span>

<span style="color: #003366;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Loud-Ink Dlamini</span>
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