Collage #7

How do I love you

Let me count the way

One when you’re happy

Two when you have a pumpkin

Three when you’re scared

Four when you’re on the floor

Five when you cry

Six when you smile

Seven when you’re in orange

Eight when you play

Nine when you’re a-swinging

Ten when I held you in my arms

…

Oh my goodness

This will take me all night

And all of the next day

And all of the next month

And the month after that

Until your first birthday

And I will not yet be done

Do you realize

It will take me a very long time

So let me just say

I love you ‘till all the numbers run out