Because I Love You Poetry Scholarship Slam
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Middle school was all fun and easy
Our friendship began because you dated my best friend
We grew closer and you became my best friend
Because I love you
I trust when you say you love me
Because I love you
I let you hold me
Because I love you
I fall into your arms knowing you’re there
Because I love you
“Because I love you”
You said,
As if it were all that mattered.
Yet still,
I struggled -
Looking for more of a reason.
I always admired the way our hands communicated.
I loved feeling your middle finger graze over mine.
Because I love you, I know there are others who love you for the same reasons that I do
Your charisma, your intelligence, and the way them brown eyes capture me every time I look at you
Before we fall in love you should know
We should not stunt each other’s growth
We will change will time
Because I love you, what a wonderful phrase
Because I love you, used so often these days
Because I love you, how the meaning has changed
to manipulate minds and bring about pain
I could never forget you.
I can’t stop dreaming about you.
I just love you so much.
You mean so much to me.
But I forgot you.
Born to be together can't you see?
Everything I have is entagled in you and me
Could you honestly see any one else loving you?
All these things I say because I love you
Using you to get what I need
Three words
should ignite a
fire
within your
bones
Three words
should fall
gently
like a delicate
snowflake
on beautiful glowing
skin
Three words
She holds him in her arms,
feeling the soft heartbeat.
Her small newborn son
She holds him close and cries.
She smiles as he's growing,
Her brave tall soldier boy
Soon he will be gone
Because I love you is not about me,
My vision has changed and you are all I see.
Love doesn't happen all by itself,
It grows from within, no longer just self.
I choose to experience all that love brings,
Clear glass veil shatteredBreaking you out of your fairy-tail worldLike waking up from a dreamSeeing things as they are for the first timeRealizing that the world is not all sunshine and rainbowsBut actually a deadly and dangerous placeWishing th
