All I Ask Of You Poem by Leah Ayliffe

That was the strange part,
and maybe the hard part.
Perhaps the easiest part really.
I don't remember falling in love with you.
I remember trying to float above it.
That's not how I imagined it happening,
to resist, to assume I wouldn't find it in you.
Until I knew you, and you were everything I used to talk about
everything I wanted to find, before I found you.
Or rather, before you found me.

It was quite the internal war for some time,
from the strange December day I shocked myself into knowing
that there was something I felt that was more
more than it was meant to be.
That was a terrifying time,
cause by then I had a very important friend in you
and someone so special that I never wanted to lose.

It was quite the internal war for some time,
until I decided to just let it be.
I soak in its light
I smile in the warmth.
It's like sunny days have come to stay
and the rays are illuminating from my own soul;

For I loved you as a friend first,
and friendship is all I'll ever ask of you.