Because I already love you.
Because every time we get sushi, I will do my lil’ happy dance and share every roll,
never leaving a table with leftovers.
Because I still catch snow on my tongue and dance in the rain and pop every bubble before they are able to hit the ground.
Because I may not understand yet how to make a “five-year plan”, but I do know how to open new doors and windows, and go from there.
Because when I look at you, I do not see the stats–the way stars and shadows dance in your eyes speaks too loudly to miss, the way you hold yourself up to fight gravity or to keep from floating away lets me know exactly how tightly to hug you.
Because, if you let me, I will read you story, leaving pages dog-eared and highlighted and re-read until the tear stains begin to blurry my favorite lines
And because when we write our story, I will gladly take turns holding the pen.
Because I had to learn how to love in this world more from nature than the people who tried to show me; as a wolf, loyal and always have your back. Like a whale, migrating through seasons and singing your praise with all the love I've got. Like a bird, celebrating your flight. As the night, moon and stars and darkness and all, here to hold you silently when it is too loud, too harsh, too much. As a mountain, here to ground and support and challenge you, here when you leave and here for when you return.
Because I celebrate the Earth and her seasons the way I will celebrate every inch of your soul, a garden in its own way. Relishing every single flower, beautiful rock, growing tree, every kiss of wind and rain and sun that greets me.
Because I will love you the way I am learning to love myself, the way you may not yet know you need.
Because now, I am here and grateful, and excited. Because I have much to give and I am finally ready to receive. Because you will always have a choice.
Because we are already whole, but like calls to like and opposites attract, we are not meant to be alone and together, we can build beautiful, devastating chaos that will rattle the stars one day.
-a.b.
"Because when I look at you, I do not see the stats–the way stars and shadows dance in your eyes speaks too loudly to miss, the way you hold yourself up to fight gravity or to keep from floating away lets me know exactly how tightly to hug you."
I have read this five times over and it's still not enough. I love love LOVE this one <3