You're More Important

You're More Important
A poem for a friend

If you ever need a hand to hold
A voice of encouragement
Or someone silent to let you mourn
Just say my name - look me in the eye.
If you ever need help to work something out
A voice of reason
Or someone silent to let you be you
I'm just a call away.
I will serve gladly as a friend in God.
We share the same love.
The love that says others first.
I'd sacrifice everything for you
Give up my happiness for yours
Give up my life so your special someone goes on living,
Forget the time of day to answer your questions
Help you carry loads and finish tasks
Cheer you on to achieve and become greater.
You are the friend I can always count on
The one I've always admired.
It's a mentality - here I am
Because you're more important than me.

There's been a misunderstanding between you and me
Rumors going around - the way I feel about you
And not a word what you think of me.
For a while I proclaimed the rumor and denied the lie
But in truth it's really neither one
I'm not crushing nor see you as just a friend
What's really there is better than you know.
I've been reading my heart
Checking it twice.
No obsession but you're in my prayers
There's no denial that I care.
I've been wishing you success
And hoping you're never sick or hurt
I kiss you as a brother
Love you as a best friend would.
And if you find that special someone
Instead of choosing me
Don't you know that I'll be
The first to send my congrats
And give you the support you need
Because you're more important than me.

Can I make it any clearer?
Must I say it? Yes. I love you.
Is that so hard to understand?
It shouldn't make you uneasy.
There is always someone who makes a way for us
There is a higher devotion
There is a Rock so strong it can't break
There is a Word so sacred it can't be spoken
A higher, greater love.
To look on the other as better.
To see beyond the body to the center.
To deny chemistry to touch the heart.
To reach past the material to the soul,
Offer the love that is overflowing yet not even mine.
Because my sin is washed away
Because I am forgiven
Because I am healed
Because I was first loved
Loved by a Love that died and said to the whole world -
Because you're more important to Me.