Knowing & Loving You

I have known you

and loved you

All of your life,

For in knowing

And loving you today

I find that my love

Has transcended time

And knowledge.

I have loved you

Even as the seed

In your mothers' womb,

For in that seed you began.

All you are today

Began with that seed

and thus I have loved you

All of your life.

I have loved you

And known you

all of your life,

But you are

More precious

And more desirable now,

Because the years have

Seen you grow

In strength and

Humility, bending

With the wind

But not breaking.

I know you, yet

There is so much

more to know

I love you, yet

There is so much

more to love.

to Patrick

with all my love,

Carolynn (April 2001)