i gave away everything that i owned, all the few possessions and ambitions that i once thought were my own. because i was confronted by the truth about our lives, that we are here to love each other while we have the time. don't wait, hold my hand. i give thanks for whatever i have. and i became a flower because of you. because of you i give my fragrance, i learn to walk, i reach you, i learn to talk, i write my song. and it goes, "oh, how i love you. oh, how i have loved you." when i met you, when i kissed you, when i followed and when i led, through the forest, and the desert, and the softness of our bed, when we argued, when we forgave, called each other the same name, as we grew up, when you gave up, when you left me, still i sang, that, "oh, how i love you. oh, how i have loved you. oh, how i love you. oh, how i have loved you."