Loving You (Shades of Your Love)

"When I first saw you, I saw love.

And the first time you touched me, I felt love.

And after all this time, you're still the One I love"

 

❤

3,289 days - that is for how long I have known you.

But for a thousand years - is how long I have loved you.

You as mine has been an incredible life party - an adventure, a dream, a reality, and a life I never wish to end.

And given a chance at a restart, I'd prefer a longer one in this one with you.

Loving you has been many things and I have savoured it all:

A Thrill

Loving you has been a thrill,

From scaling places unknown, on lakes, on land and in the air - we certainly would see the underworld soon (Because yeah, the ocean calls you).

Wonder rides, commitments, ventures,

crazy dares, all-in-all-out favourite moments.

Never has my once cautious soul come this much alive. I have loved every moment.

A Joy

Loving you has been a joy,

When I could see the light on the bridge, you were all I could think of for purpose; and when masquerades came calling me out to you, somewhere in the depths of my heart, I knew hope was still sure, alive and well so long as it was with you.

Gracing baby shower, calm nights with love wrapped all around us; where our hearts would be at perpetual peace - that godly, celestial serendipity.

My soul has felt joy with you.

A Heartache

Loving you has been a heartache,

The pain of growth, the pain of learning, the pain of change, the pain of forgiveness.

The pain of understanding, the pain of acceptance, the pain of love. The sort of colossal seismic reverberations that strike up when a tornado meets a volcano. 

The graceful yet painful merger of fire and ice; solid hard blending with solid feeble - that divine push to all limits demanding equity, accountability, assurance and responsibility.

There was the beauty of the pain of seeing pieces of sub-dermal striking flaws and soul-shocking revelations.

The hearts ached - but the hearts changed. Blissful.

 Naked

Loving you has been naked;

Before you in all my being - the extremely delightful, the extremely despicable.

Love sharpened and tried by experiences, people, elements, the universe and life and coming out refined.

The essence of living, to me, has never been more mortalised.

To have felt the deepest of loves in all its shades - I have been blessed to live with what others traded life for.

A Blessing

Loving you has been a blessing;

To have had that one in my corner, that arbitrator on my turf. A heart, a home and more; that human that has been an entire cosmos. My best friend, my love, my safehouse, my comforter, my strength, my blessing.

I wasn't one to believe so much in the intangible,

but you consolidated my faith.

For everything about you has been testament to the concession that God, among all nature, thought of me at creation - giving me my perfect fit - You.

9 earthly spins on and you're still The One.

You're still the one I run to
The one that I belong to
You're still the one I want for life.
You're still the one that I love
The only one I dream of
You're still the one I kiss good night.

May you always know this and feel this;

even through times of tempest, even in times where the hearts catch cold feet -

I pray you are reminded of the core of this indelible truth:

that I love you, My Valentine.

~ To Her