I will say simply, <br />‘It is because she has been with me all these years’ <br /> <br />I will say <br />‘It is because even in old age and even in sickness <br />Your face remains the most beautiful of all faces’ <br /> <br />I will say, <br /> ‘Because to hold you to be near you <br />Is to live again in a deeper way’ <br /> <br />I will say, <br />'Because you have helped me in so many ways <br />'Because of you I have not been been lonely' <br /> <br />I will say <br />I love you so much <br />'Because you are my life now and will be to the end of my days'<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-ask-myself-why-i-love-you-so-much-for-rifkah/