Shane Hawley's 'Love You'

Just something to share - this poem really spoke to me.

Be patient
Because I love you a lot
But I want to love you
Like the weight of a freight train crashing into your chest
Like a slow motion sunrise on rewind
Like the Valentine’s time bomb that I mailed to your address
I want to love you like spam
So mushy that it’s gross yeah
I wanna love you like that

I wanna love you like Spiderman
All sticky and clingy and shit
And like Batman, all hardcore and repressed
And like Wolveriene
Which I should not have to spell out for your people
And I wanna love ya gently
Like ducks

I wanna love ya like water is wet
Like martinis are dry
Like when limbos get low
And when skaters get high yeah
I wanna love ya like that

I wanna love ya like anything in Old English
Amazing but impossible to understand
I wanna love you til it freaks you out
Like the church of Scientology or Michael Jackson’s face

I wanna love ya hard like calculus
Easy like cheerleaders
Soft like chinchillas
And sensitive like hair triggers

I wanna love like when the heavens open up
And the stars start to dance on a pitch black tapestry
And the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie

I wanna love ya
Like the abominable snowman loves his little bunny rabbit
Like Mr. T loves gold chains and pitying fools

I wanna love ya like dogs love Frisbees
Like Pyramus loves Thisbee
Like Santa Claus does chimneys
And like my dad loves whiskey
Yeah, I wanna love you like that

I wanna love ya gorgeous like a beauty queen
Psycho like a drama queen
And fabulous like a drag queen yeah
I wanna love ya like that

I wanna love ya like the one couple in this room who had really great sex last night
Mixed
With the one couple in this room who fell asleep in front of the TV last night
So that for the rest of our lives
During every commercial break
We go at it like animals
I wanna love ya like that

I wanna love ya like Christina Agulierra is dirty
Like Eminem is white
Like Carson Daily is lame
And like Katy Perry sucks
Or at least how I imagine she sucks

I wanna love you like Tom Cruise
All types of crazy baby
I wanna love ya like Jessica Simpson
Hot
And really slow yeah
I wanna love ya like that

I wanna love ya like bears give hugs
Like wind-chimes slow dance
Like raindrops kiss foreheads
And like hands read braille

I wanna love you broken like morse code
Humble like pie
Always like taxes
And perfect
Like the distance from your eyelashes to my glasses

I wanna love ya like driving in a Minnesota winter
A little scary because its impossible to stop so be patient
Because I love you a lot
But one day I’m gonna love ya like that