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# To Know You Is To Love You
- URL: https://www.vesperapress.com/to-know-you-is-to-love-you/
- Published: 2015-06-09T11:55:48.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-09T11:55:48.000Z
- Author: Meri McGuire McConn
- Tags: Oceans of Mine, #Poetry, #Love and Romance, #Longing and Desire, #26

I do not know how to go slow;  
I do not know what that means.

I know how to be real,  
To feel the world around me  
In patient succulence;

I know how to breathe,  
To let your words fill me  
In brutally crashing waves.

I know how to embrace you,  
To take, to cherish, to protect  
Your precious, unspoken vulnerabilities.

I do not know what “slow” means.

I know that I love you.  
I know I’ve always loved you  
From the moment you laid eyes upon me,  
Before I even saw you looking,  
Before I even found you to be real.

I know that I’ve always wanted your power over me,  
Your silent call to my attention;  
And that I test it by trying desperately to pull away,  
By trying as desperately to push forward,  
To take control.

I know I have no control.

I know I am your woman.  
I know you are my man.

I know I am your girl.  
I know you are my boy.

I know I am yours, in everything.  
I know you are mine, despite everything.

And I do not know anything.

I do not know how to take your kisses:  
I do not know how to make them mine.

I do not know how to drink your essence:  
I do not know how to make it pump through my veins.

I do not know how to have what I want with you;  
I do not know how to live with you;

I do not want to live without you.

I do not know how to wait for you;  
I do not know how to survive without knowing.

I hunger for your every knowledge,  
stored in cells and memories and energy:

That of your body,  
That of your mind,  
That of your heart,  
That of your soul.

I am released, undone,  
plaintive, at your feet.

Please teach me  
how to be  
in love  
forever  
with you.