A Love Letter

I could tell you that I love you but that would only mean so much.

The word love never speaks louder than when I hold you in my clutch.

I let love roam as my action because the action of my love is proud;

So that if I should lose my voice today, tomorrow I could still shout I love you loud!

If you're lucky enough to hear love ringing then don't hesitate to answer that call;

For it is better to love and have lost ones love than to have never been loved at all.

If my love for you is ever brought into question, you'll hear me weep and sob...

For if you ever feel that you have to ask, then I'm sorry, I'm not doing my job.

I spring at your scent, your taste brings me from my knees,

Your love is like the softest of kisses carried on a winters breeze.

You bring me back from the dead, keep me afloat in a stormy ocean,

Lost and floating until I reach for your loves potion.

I used to crave you. I used to love you, but now I need you in my life,

You orchestrate my mornings and you take away my strife.

I could never do you justice. You'll never know what you mean to me.

I dread us being apart; the mere thought of it a catastrophe,

How would I even function? I could never be alone without you - my beautiful...

coffee.

I know that I'm not alone when I say that caffeine found in the sweet java nectar of a coffee cup is the most addictive drug to a parent. I remember hating coffee growing up and wondering why adults all around me drank nothing else. Now I can't picture functioning without a regular fix. It all started with the stresses and strains of working an irregular shift pattern full time and gathered steam with the worry and anxiety the thought of becoming a parent for the first time induced. My addiction grew stronger when sleep deprivation kicked in during our time with our first newborn. It grew stronger still as things like teething and tantrums started rearing their ugly heads. When a second newborn was added to the mix it was already too late. I was hooked. I still am.

A morning without coffee is like sleep... (Author Unknown).