The correct answer
She looked out for him,
her heart bursting with love.
Before the ocean
of impermanence
was going to swallow
the flood of her certainty,
she wanted him to know.
With a tremor inside
she let the words fall from her lips
aiming straight at his heart.
“I love you”!
In his eyes she detected
a spark of recognition
and a distant smile
as he quickly uttered
“thank you”!
A single tear
hung in her eyelashes.
It held both
love and sorrow,
for she knew
that the correct answer
would have been
“I love you too!”