How Do You Know She Loves You?

HOW DO YOU KNOW SHE LOVES YOU?

If she says “I love you”, on the roller coaster
moments after she saw you
soil your shirt -
she loves you.

If you find yourself at a karaoke bar
and she insists on singing a duet,
then she picks ‘Just You and I’
but insists on singing the Eddie Rabbitt part,
and when it is over, says,
“Let’s have a big hand for Crystal Gayle”
while pointing to you, and
she gives you a high-five,
she loves you.

If she dances with your friends
without looking at you,
she loves you.

If she hides your shoes
because you are late for work,
then makes you hunt for them,
and watches you grow angrier,
before she goes to the stove,
flips it open to reveal the shoes,
laughing as you lace them with a scowl,
she loves you.

If she calls you later in the afternoon
just to ask,
“How are those shoes working out for you?”
She loves you.

If she wants you to see her
playing with babies,
showing you expressions
that ask your opinion,
she loves you.

After she has seen your worst,
whether it be drunk or foolish -
or both -
if she waits a month or so
before telling your friends,
She loves you.

If she never tells her friends,
she loves you a lot.

If she ever screams the words,
“I hate you!” at you,
she loves you.
Or, she once did.

If you try to get even for the shoes
and hide something of hers,
and of course she finds it,
when she looks at you
with eyes that hold no pity,
and says, “I love you,”
she loves you.

If she really loves you,
there is no way you could not know.
You will wake up to find her staring at you,
enter a room to find her smelling your shirt.
She will call at any hour, “just to talk,”
she will laugh with you when your jokes are funny,
or at you when they are not.

If she look past all of your faults
and keeps looking,
she loves you.

If she tells you, how she misses her mom,
or how much she regrets fights with her brother,
she loves you.

If she tells you what you need to hear
instead of what you want to hear,
she not only loves you,
she respects you.





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