My Better Half

My love
Her voice as warm as the morning sun
Her smile brighter than the stars in a clear sky
Her twinkling coal eyes, a vacuum sucking my being in
With her words she weaves her magic on me
A light to brighten my way
Along the narrow roads, the twists, the turns
The fork roads of indecision and doubt
Along the endless ups and downs
The rollercoaster rides of life
She remains my constant
A lifeline
I was always on the outside looking in
And whenever I looked in
All I saw inside me was her
She is the best thing that has ever happened in my life
When I say it she laughs and says I am young,
My life is only just beginning and it has better things in store than her
I have places to go and a world to see
And my only response is that with her by my side, I have my world with me
She is my mountain high and my valley bottom
My shelter on high, my foundation below
Day in, day out
I tell her she is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen
She says beauty is in the eye of the beholder
And I tell her this beholder will never have eyes for anyone else
I tell her she is a vision of perfection
An apparition from a better world
A taste at ecstasy
A glimpse at Heaven
A gift from God to a man who has been through enough
I tell her this, she smiles and my soul sings
But even angels can bleed in this world we live in
She tried to hide it but I saw
In the set of her jaw
In the tension in her shoulders
In her fleeting glances
And the subtle hardness in her smiles
I saw and my essence wept for your lost purity
Tainted by a world unworthy of your presence in it
I saw what remains of the glowing soul you had
Stripped down of its glory and dimmed down by the shadows
I saw the frail light that remains
I saw it all and I loved you more
She asked me why I would want with her broken heart
And I told her the pieces are my only chance at being whole again
So I hope next time she looks in the mirror she will see
I hope her eyes will open wider and she will see what I saw
The pure soul inside the body
The beauty behind the pain
The angel beneath the mask
The light at the end of the tunnel
The spark that lit my heart on fire
I hope she remembers this next time she asks if she looks good in her jeans
Or how her new dress fits her
The answer will always be the same
Because beyond what she has on
I see the glow of the heart within the skin
Seeping out of her pores and illuminating my waking hours
Her radiance and grace chasing the shadows out of my gaze
And I hope she believes
I hope she knows I mean it when I say I love her
I hope she keeps me despite the scars
I hope she loves me despite my wounds
I hope she will tend to me when the shards of my shattered heart hurt me
That she will help me pick the pieces scattered by the wind
And that she won’t mind when I ask to merge it with hers
We all live on borrowed time
And when time comes for me to pay
I hope my hand will be in hers
When I am ready to be laid to the ground
And that I will gaze one final time
In the eyes of one who held all that mine
I hope she will stay
And that finally after all the trials and errors
After all the tremors, the tribulations and the pain
I have finally found my better half