I love you for existing.

For proving that fantasies can indeed be omens that herald the truth.

For proving that my thoughts, my dreams, my dearest and most secretive wishes were nothing but precursors for joy that only love can bring.

For proving my doubts hollow and my skeptic alter-ago a liar.

For finally making every happiness I have today, worth the wait.

I waited, oh, how I have had to wait for you.

How I have had to make mistakes and learn painful lessons to truly learn how to reach you.

How I have had to resist the souls who loved me truly and selflessly, whose only fault was that they did not believe that you existed. Resisting them, tore my soul apart, shred my heart to pieces and all I had to go by was the faith that somewhere along the trail in the woods of my life you were waiting to pick up the pieces and put them together again through the alchemy of pure love.

I have wandered alone the trail, at dark times and when the sun was high. Barefeet I walked, scalded my soles on the hot sand, tore them on the thorns and rubble strewn, so that the slightest trail left by you was not destroyed. Like a maniac I followed telltale footprints, because that was all I had to guide me to you.

I knew that once I was within your eyesight, you would sow silken grass to soothe my feet, you would heal them by your touch.

I have borne trials, reached the brink of despair, travelled back to the shades of hope. The journey now as treasured as the destination.

Alone we toiled for a common cause. Only blind, deaf and mute faith to assure each of the other’s existence. At this glade we meet now, our discoveries of each other , the vindication of our faiths.

Our love to heal one another. Like some strange jigsaw puzzle, our lives lived in bits and pieces so far have fallen into place to reveal a picture so beautiful in its completeness, at this the moment of our meeting.

The woods still stretch ahead, as alien and as unfriendly as the trails we have conquered so far. But we, you and me as one are invincible.

The forces already bow to us, the creatures of shadows withdraw in fear, the forest parts to make way for us.

Thank you for existing, for giving meaning to my existence……