the songbird admires our love

it’s so easy to write love poems
that it’s hard
because i don’t want to
say the same things
or use the same words
that everyone else
has written a thousand times
to describe love

and i won’t compare
my love for you
to the love the sun
has for the moon
or the waves
have for the shore
or the trees
have for the sky

because there is
too much predictability in that
even in the way
that day becomes night
and waves crash down
and leaves change colors
only so that
they can start again

no, i love you in ways
that even the songbird
would not understand
because feelings like these
are more beautiful
and more complex
than the bonds and patterns
found in nature.