I Love You Despite Poem by Mary Champion

Babe, I know the things that you have been,
I can guess the bad times that you've seen,
but I know it's hard to be alone
and you've been dragged through Hell to get back home.

But Baby, now you're back here, it's so good.
I know you'd made it sooner if you could.
So Baby, don't apologise for all the things you've been,
cos I've been down that low myself
now we've both come out clean.
The past is dead and buried; it taught us all it knew
and all that really matters is right now and me and you.

Yeah. Baby we've been down as low as Hell.
It seems a billion years since we first fell.
And we've climbed up the sewer walls
to reach the pure clean air.
So, they can't tell us nothin' Babe,
cos we know, we've been there.

But love can wipe the slate and heal the pain.
We're never gonna go back there again.
We've found each other, darling, now I'm yours and you're all mine.
We're riding for another fall, but right in love this time.

Oh Baby won't you take my word,
I want to take your hand
and help you make it through the night
until you understand?
I want to lie beside you love
with tender words to say
and hold you close when sleep won't come
to take the hurt away.
I want to prove to all the world, it hasn't been in vain.
I'll love you though the darkness, till the sun comes out again.