Sometimes It Takes A Lifetime.....

Not because she wore the nicest dress,

Not because she was the smartest woman I had met,

Not because she was the prettiest girl in the crowd,

Not because she had the most divine smile I had ever experienced,

It was because sometimes it takes a lifetime or more to know,

Why you fell in love…..

Not because she loved me more than I thought one could be loved

Not because she accepted all my petty mistakes and forgave me,

Not because she cared for me like I was her world,

Not because she made me a better man than I was,

It was simply because sometimes it takes a lifetime or more to know

How much one can be loved …

I love her just a little more, little more than my own life…

I treasure every moment I spent with her,

In my memory she still lives,

Call it fate, call it destiny, this wasn’t how I dreamed of it,

She left because she had to…

I am still madly in love with her,

Not because there aren’t other great women around …

It’s because, sometimes it takes a lifetime or more

To forget….