The Boy Next Door....a poem I wrote back in 2010

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The Boy Next Door





Love Comes Slowly
Believing in "love at first sight" we often dream our lives away.


 
Thinking that love comes suddenly, we overlook the one who's steadily by our side.
Watching and waiting we look far away.



Pushing aside the one who loves us most, we turn our glance away in pride.
Looking so far away, dating so many.



Chatting over a backyard fence, late at night-
So often we've shared too much candy.



How long will we continue on this way before we see the light?
Softly and tenderly you've listen many times to all my woes.


 
Always ready with a shoulder to cry on, always ready never condemning.
Never breaking any rules, you've listened once again, staring at my toes.


 
Then one day, you lift my chin, and say I've brought you a ring.
Looking at the sparkling diamond in the twilight, I finally see your eyes.


 
You were always there for me, even when no one else would come around.
My eyes, you hold with your unwavering glance, a waiting my answer, ignoring the fireflies.


 
Seeing you now for the first time, I know it is for you my heart does pound.
Steady and strong you were, waiting patiently as I wandered far and wide.


 
Slowly, steadily, you offered me your love each and every day, knowing I'd be yours in time.
Waiting patiently you've watched as I often left with another going for a ride-


 
You watched as one after another, I let go, none having won my heart. Watching for me often you would into the well toss a dime...
Loving me from grade school, knowing what you wanted. You waited patiently for me.


 
Being my friend first, binding my heart to yours ever so tight.
Knowing love is patient, knowing true love takes time, you took care to invest knowing what in time could be.

 
Today, by my side you stay, holding my hand all through the day and into the night.
True love it came to me.


 
Love it came to you.


 
Growing up we played all day, later we talked all night, and we chased many a firefly, you and me.
Love we bound together slowly, tightly and sure, to each other we'll ever be true...