And that is because of you

Princess,

I love words. You know that well. LOL But words will never adequately do justice to detail what you mean to me. There aren’t enough words in any language to fully cover the subject. But, I’ll do my best …

It makes me feel good to know that I love you so much that I give you all that I can and all that I am. What makes my heart beat faster than a rough attack of Tachycardia is not only knowing that you feel the same way, but that my love and that “all I am” actually meets your needs.

But we both know that needs change. And as they do, we change with them. It is that “growing”, that evolution which fuels me to try every day to be better than Superman … to be better than Zorro.

You are the only reciprocating love I have ever known. And perhaps what makes it the most clear is that we are not perfect for each, but rather, we are perfectly imperfect. Yet still, we work everything out when problems arise because we see those problems as things we need to fix … together.

It’s the human condition and it’s what makes us half of something which we are right for … us.

You take and you take hard. And I love you for doing that. Because you give back just as hard as you take. You understand the need to return what you feel. And that will always be at the root of the difference you have made in my life.

And along the way, we have discovered that when two people give, no one has to take. We simply give and then receive. And this is just one of the many new experiences I have been blessed with because of you.

Yeah, I got a few years on you. And we’ve certainly noticed the age gap. LOL But those differences have enabled us both to learn what we didn’t know. We don’t go through life constantly hiding from the questions which remain. But we don’t face the same question twice because we don’t run away from it.

We don’t pretend to have all the answers, nor do we pretend to know everything. Instead, we recognize that together we have all the questions and answers. And this will continue to illuminate our way as we travel to the destination. Though we may skip along a bit and perhaps do a little “hop-scotch” (yeah, it’s a game from back in the olden days. -wink- ), we will never cheat the journey nor look for shortcuts.

Because the journey is what has taught us what we didn’t know but needed to learn if we want the destination we reach to be a final destination as opposed to one which appears and then vanishes because we didn’t take the time, along the way, to listen to each other.

I love you because you give to me. I love you because you receive from me. I love you when I get to hold you. I love you from a distance. I love you for never tiring of having to explain to me how to do one of the various modern-day technological do-ja-ma-hickeys like twitter, tumblr and damn near everything else I am hopelessly inept to learn.

I love you for being in my dreams. I love you for always being honest with me and for always telling me what’s bothering you. I love you for saying thank you, not because you know it warms my heart, but because you actually want to say it.

I love you for having long hair and for crinkling like a little girl when you walk. I love you for having passion in your eyes, for having tenderness in your touch, for giggling as you bounce on my knee and for being content to lay on my chest.

I love you for not looking for the fairy tale. Instead, I love you for seeking the reality which includes that fairy tale.

Though I try to explain it, I still haven’t found the words to fully tell you how much you healed me and how much I truly love you for being exactly who you are.

Tomorrow has never looked so good in my life. And it’s because today is the best day so far.

And that is because of you.