How Do I Love Thee?

how do i love thee? i love thee till i take to every street you walked to get a feel of you a self-serving delusion i drown myself in to get you close to me i love thee till i listen, read, juggle in each thing you told me me about to live up to your dream your love sweeps through me like a tsunami builds up a greater me cured sloth, inertia i love thee till i am left soaked, cold, on an empty street but ever strong - inspired by your words - to take on life challenges if i could move the world i could have moved it for you even to the farthest star i swear inspired by How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning