I Can't Write You A Poem

So I was going to write you a poem 

But then I realized it was no use

Because words are too weak a medium

To express how blessed I am to have you in my life

I was going to put down some rhymes

But it didn't feel right

Because you see through my rhetoric

Can guess through my facade

Differentiate my wild crabgrass feelings from a preordered sod

You don't know the poet

You know me

You can detect when I'm trying to reflect or flee

And start reeling in my feelings before I can tell they exist

And my reception to people with your level of perception

Is usually fear

But with you I feel the safest

Because you manage to tape my shattered shape back together

And show me that even if we can't grab some shards that doesn't mean it weathered

And I'm tethered to you

Orbiting around you like a planet dancing beside the sun

Which is perfectly appropriate because you are radiant

Thoughtful in every gradient

Creative at every angle

You know how to communicate 

When all I can do is strangle

The situation with words

Drown it in punctuation and alliteration

I'm just trying to survive

And you want to save our generation

Reform the norm with a storm of understanding

And whenever we're together I start handing over the best pieces of myself

Because spending time with you is how I gain wealth

For you are my safe
The thing that saves me

Razor that shaves me

Tears off my anxieties

I love you 

Because you make me love myself

I don't have to be afraid

That I won't be good enough under society's blade

You are the cascade of aid that cannot fade

The crayon that strayed outside the lines

The only holy crusade

And what you mean to me can't be weighed in mere words

Because our moments together can't be degraded into speech

I refuse to bleach our relationship 

White out the shout of love underneath

For how much I cherish a person like you cannot be conveyed

So I'm sorry but your poem

Is going to be delayed.