D3 (I Try)

I try to wrap words

Around this feeling

of love

I carry for you

in my heart

But they fall away

forming a puddle

of useless babble

At my feet

The enormity

Of the emotion

Too intimidating

I try to capture moments

Like a photograph

for proof of the intensity

Of the love

I carry for you

in my heart

But my brain fixates

On the smile in your eyes

Or the joy in your laugh

And the big picture

Is lost

I try to illustrate

Our story in pictures

But my drawings

fall short

Of the truth

The love that I feel

Contorted

by shading and shadow

Reality hides

in the folds of my pen

and the crease of my paper

Still, I offer you this poor attempt

Because you were born today

And that makes this day

More special than others

And I'd like to offer you something

Other than just me

Because I'm yours every day anyway