funny
   how those three little words
   make this heart skip beats
   funny they are so hard to say sometimes
   when we need to say them the most
   funny how we listen for them desperately through all the noise
   of our everyday lives
   funny how our total lives
   our beings 
   our essences become 
   acutely attuned to those words
   as deep rivers of joy with those words
   in awe because of those words
   more full of the future because of those words
   more full of meaning and resolve because of those words
   those simple
   oh so simple 
   but oh so beautiful 
   from one Heart to another Heart
   binding them together in that most sacred of spaces
   those most wonderful words in the All of the Universe
   i love you 

   Richard Harrison 1998