Another month had passed and here we are, fervently loving each other…wishing to be together… tirelessly desiring each other. The odds are always there and yet, it’s nothing compared to the highs that I feel every time I hear your voice. It’s like my senses are always tickled with something so fluffy and I just want to float in this kind of comfort wherein I do not have to worry about the mundane of every day life. Oh, I know that love isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but rather a bed of roses… it could be fragrant one instant and thorny the next but without the latter, how can we appreciate the moments of bliss, the value of every second, in smelling the aroma of a newly-brewed coffee, the rising and the setting of sun, in seeing you smile?
So yes, a happy 10th with you, my handsome guy. Our love story may sometimes be fraught with craziness and exasperation but I am grateful that we are holding on and choosing to be together.
What Lovers Do?
I can compose a poem as moving as a river,
I can sing a song as soulful as that enchantress of the forests,
I can swim oceans as wide as the universe,
I can walk on paths as long it takes,
I can count the stars scattered across the milky way,
I can find all the treasures hidden in the deepest ruins,
I can wrestle with all the bravest fighters this world has to offer,
These and a million more lovers can do.
They may tire, they may feel pain, the may despair,
But these are all fleeting,
For at the end of the day, the heart knows and desires
To carry on, to hope, to live, and to love.
CKF
10 Oct 2021
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