Wedding Reading: I Love You, By Roy Croft

Author: Roy Croft

Style: Poetic, Romantic, Non religious

I love you,
 Not only for what you are,
 But for what I am when I am with you.

I love you,
 Not only for what you have made of yourself,
 But for what you are making of me.

I love you for
 the part of me that you bring out;
 I love you for
 putting your hand into my heaped-up heart
 And passing over all the foolish, weak things
 that you can’t help dimly seeing there,
 And for drawing out into the light
 All the beautiful things
 that no one else had looked
 Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you have done
 More than any creed
 Could have done
 To make me good,
 And more than any fate could have done
 To make me happy.

You have done it
 Without a touch,
 Without a word,
 Without a sign.
 You have done it by being yourself
 Perhaps that is what
 Being a friend means, after all.