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You by Jennifer Veevers

You are there when you don't know it,
In the deepest crevasse of my mind.
A slow but strong waltz; the two partners the heart and the mind.
One.....two....ee, One.....two...three- go the blinding beats.
The first uncovers the immense pain of the heart,
While the last two show the joy and compassion that combine both heart and mind-
The ties that hold them, forever, in their dance of love.  

You are seen by many others- but they don't see what I see,
They see your movements,
Your feelings put into words-
You, expressing yourself in the ways people of this world have often thought of as their only means of getting to know someone.

This- I now know to be not true.
For even though I see all of these things,
They are not all I see.

Taking a step back I stop and look,
Now all I see is you,
So pure and still,
Baring your soul without even realising.

As I stare, you blink and continue to gaze at me with those piercing blue eyes,
Yours is a blue that could never be matched, or tinned and given some exotic name that doesn't suit,
No- not this Blue,
This blue is you,
And no amount of imaginative thinking could ever get the hue of you just right.

You are something I do not understand,
But at the same time understand completely.
You are someone I hardly know,
But at the same time know everything there is to.
You are just plain you,
Emitting so many different colours that it's hard for me to function normally around you. 

You are quite simply you,
And I love you.