When I Told You I Loved You

When I told you I loved you,

I wanted there to be no doubt in your mind it was true.

It's been almost four years since my lips spoke those three words.

For weeks, there had been moments I had almost just blurted them out.

Yet, these three words I feared more than a death sentence.

I was afraid once the words escaped my breathe, they would be left floating.

A feeling you would not want to catch.

Then, in a moment of need you sent those three words to me.

A typed text, tied to teetering moment of potential outcomes.

While I waited four years to speak those words,

I had also waited four years to hear them.

I couldn't type them back.

They were caught in the tips of my fingers,

but I wanted it to mean so much more.

When you told me you loved me,

I wanted there to be no doubt in my mind it was true.