The Story of "i Love You"

When I was but a little girl picking flowers and making believe, I pictured my future with naive perfection, and stories of the perfect husband I'd weave. He would be smart, funny, and handsome, A knight with a horse, for sure. He'd read my mind and love my friends, I would be lonely never more. As the years passed I met some boys, I thought they'd surely do. With expectations high as the sky, I welcomed the first few. Soon enough I came to see that those boys weren't what I dreamed. I pictured a new jaded future, The old one was hopeless, it seemed. I spent some time alone like that keeping boy after boy at a distance, when I met a man with smiling eyes, who tore down all my resistance. He sounded like a memory from a childhood left behind, but he was smart, funny, and handsome, loved my friends and read my mind. Suddenly I remembered that knight, the husband I'd make believe. This man of mine was not that guy, but hundred-fold what a knight should be.