6/24/18
Love Note

My Dearest Love:
When daylight begins to slow itself on the distant hills, I remember your eyes being as bright and clear as a summer night moon or the sun on a lazy fall afternoon, where we watched leaves of a million colors drift slowly down from the trees. Your smile always as big as the crescent moon, filling the spring skies. Your heart as warm as that bottle of Tennessee whiskey we shared as we laid there watching the stars shot across the winter sky. We were one together, together as we reached out and touched the moon and the stars. ♥ /

You know how sometimes you get up early in the morning and everything is quiet and you feel like you're the only person left in the world, or it could be in the evening or the high noon—that's the way I feel when I don't feel your presence here with me. Because without your heart, my heart cannot continue to beat. If I cannot hear your breathing in my mind, I'm not sure I'm breathing.

I can feel you close here with me this morning. I can feel you breathe on my neck, your heart beating in unison with mine. When it is quiet like this and the sun is beginning to creep up over the hills, and I listen closely, I can hear you whispering I love yous somewhere in the back of my mind. I know you are somewhere in the back of my mind. I know you are somewhere, having a cup of coffee, daydreaming about me. And I whisper louder than I should that I love you. ♥

So we begin another day holding each other's hearts. Take care of my heart, my love, as I will always take care of yours. There's nothing so sweet as your breath on my face and your whispers of I love yous in my ear. I love you, always, with my my heart.

Some things are beyond the dissension lane of time. An aching heart for one on true love.

I love you
Forever and ever
Your Steve