Deciding To Love Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Paint a picture and set it on a shelf in your mind.
Come back and look at it whenever you have some time.
Notice the love you feel when you see it, notice the anticipation - the quiet joy in the moments before you look at it again.
Caring grows and flourishes in this way, it causes a decision to bloom within your mind.
Having taken the final step, love fills the picture you have taken off the shelf and fills your heart to overflowing with another person's image.
Immediately following a decision to love and be loved, the two pictures become one in each other's minds.
Love settles down to how ever long a time two people decide to stay together.