immature

I am in love with you
in the way that children
are in love:
incompletely, sporadically,
self-consciously.

you appear to me
as every adult appears
to a child:
faultless, omniscient,
unendingly generous and honest
and kind.

and, as must happen
to every child,
I will lose my god:
the slightest human error
will cause you to
fall