like no other love before

in your your eyes I see true love
on your lips I taste the sweetest kiss,
a long lifetime of waiting
is the smallest price to pay
to find the one and only love
who loves and is loved
with full and equal measure
to stroke your long dark hair
and to caress with tender gentleness
your velvet skin, white, soft and fair
disarms and leaves me helpless
boundless with emotion,
a raging sea that knows no shore,
a ship without captain or direction
like no other love before
the years that passed
were but a dream
of things that could not be
but now the dreamer is awake
and our love redeems the dreamer's sleep
our debt is paid for all eternity