I Love You This Much

I love you this much

Enough to let the sun split  

Its molten script  

And spill a burning hymn  

Across your fingertips

A flare so bright  

It teaches daylight  

How to worship you

I love you this much

A vow carved in the throat  

Of a thunderbolt 

A pulse that wrote  

Its name in smoke  

On the ribs of the sky  

Just to say  

I’m yours

I love you this much 

Past the ache of old hours

Past the ruin of towers  

Built by hands  

That never knew  

How love flowers  

In the cracks  

Of what breaks

I love you this much

Wide as the wings  

Of a god waking up

A hush that sings  

From the deep black cup  

Of the universe

Where stars erupt  

Just to prove  

Your gravity

I love you this much  

A reach that bends fate

A fire that won’t wait

A truth that walks straight  

Into the dark  

And makes it translate  

Its shadows  

Into light

I love you this much

So if you asked how far

I’d point past the star  

That outshines every scar  

We’ve carried so far  

And say

Love goes beyond  

What maps can chart

Beyond the end  

Of the end

Beyond the last beat  

Of the last heart 

And I’m still reaching