Six

I cried the first time.
I loved the second.
I fell deeper the third.
I smiled the fourth.
My heart stopped the fifth.
But the sixth,
I cried.
I cried and cried.
Willing every inch of my heart to be cleared.
Willing you to finally enter.
You cleared the darkness in it.
You brought the light.
It took six times.
Six.
Why?
I was unwilling to accept.
But after that time,
I barely got past two lines,
Before the tears came.
Before I realized,
I truly,
Deeply,
Love you.