Why did God smile on us my love? Why did he take the time to give us another chance? Neither of us expected it. I don't think either of us even considered it. Yet here we are, approaching our senior years...together.
Were our early years wasted...all 14 of them. We were not only young in years but mentally and emotionally. We were so immature. Heck, we couldn't take care of ourselves let alone each other. Then without any foresight, we had two babies!
Looking back on those years, memories are vague. So much forgotten and yet so much remembered. I remember our last nights together. I remember lying in bed next to you feeling so alone and empty. Scared of what the future held, anxious to get on with my life but worried that I would never love again.
I wonder if others dream of the perfect love...the romantic, always together kind of love. The idealistic love, created by movies that charm the audience, songs that mesmerize the listener and books that captivate the reader...the live happily ever after kind of love. I wonder if others find their love.
The thing is, before you can find something you have to know what it looks like. And you know, love probably looks different to everyone. Maybe that's what we should have looked for first. Then perhaps love would have found us. Makes sense to me anyway.
Looking at you now, watching you as you sleep, lying in your bed and feeling yet again, alone, I smile with contentment. After all these years, none of them wasted, I know what love looks like for me. The only words that say it like it is are grammatically incorrect. But for me, the perfect love...the romantic, always together, kind of love...the live happily ever after kind of love...the love I cherish...is being with you "alone together".
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