Love Letter

I think that for my entire life I have been looking for you, though I didn’t know it until now. I sought you out in the faces of co-workers and the arms of lovers. I denied you in the empty words of strangers who saw ‘too little’ and the distant looks of friends who saw in me way ‘too much’. I looked for you in endless pursuits and goals and dramas and schemes, all crafted to look like something I thought you should be. I scorned you when your truth tore all of those something’s down, and yet through it all I was seeking you. To know you. To become one with you and love you for all that you are. And now that we are here, I know that you were there through it all. Never again will I look anywhere but here, in this union that was somehow brought about by so many side roads and dusty trails. My entire life I have looked for you, and now that I have found you, you are the quiet of my heart, you are these words I write, you are the yearning to set these words down and gaze at the stars, because here is where we are, one breath, one moment, one eternal love.

©️ Cristen Writes