When I first laid eyes on you I had to fight off feelings of nervousness because I was also facing a strong feeling of wanting to know more about you. "Who is this beautiful girl?" is what I kept asking myself. I wanted to get your attention but I knew I had to first clean up my own messes. No way would a girl this beautiful be interested in someone who has so much to figure out about himself. But I did, and I am always amazed and grateful that you chose me.

Every 24 hours feels like both enough time and no time at all, when it comes to making sure it is filled with everything "you". I don't think I express it enough, and so I cant fault you for not understanding how much it means to me, but waking up every day and spending the first 10-20 minutes of the day laughing with you about anything and everything is enough to get a million man army through a war. My war is fought interally, and so your ability to pull me out of it so easily with just some much as a smile in my direction is so much more than I ever thought I would have.

You have redefined what a kiss is and means for me. A kiss has more meaning. There is a feeling to the perfect kiss. It fills me with warmth. I can feel the transfer of love from yours to mine. That love travels deeper until it hits my heart. It reverberates throughout my body and that's why I tremble a little bit after the kiss, because it's a feeling I wish I could capture and keep in a bottle forever so that I can revisit it at any time.

Your beauty evolves everyday. You were beautiful before me. You will always be beautiful tomorrow. So when I say it evolves I do not mean that you started from a pointer of ugliness. I mean that the beautiful you were yeterday and the beautiful you are today are always two seperate forms, and in the best ways. Yesterday I admired your beauty because the slight change in your laugh combined with the way you shyly pulled away from me to hide your blush, is something I log in my "Most Beautiful Things" list, and today the way you looked back at me to blow me a kiss before dissappearing around a corner, was added to that same list. The list continues to change. I swap new things in and out. It will always change and evolve, because you will always be beautiful.

I don't see you as just a girlfriend. I see you as a lifelong best friend. I see you as a wife. I see you as a lover. I see you as a mother. I see you as a protector. I see you as a teammate. You are someone I will always miss, and when there is ever any distance between us I will always feel as if I am not whole. Even in the loudest places I can always hear your voice. It comes to me as a soft whisper, and in that moment I know that I am have been away from you for too long and that it is time that I find my way back to you.

How can someone be so perfect? How can someone be so pure and honest? You love me for who I am, and I want you to always know that I love you for everything that you are and will become. Watching the morning sun slowly creep across your face in a dimly lit room is a sweet surprise even though I've watched the process a thousand times already. I love when you sleep, but I also hate when you sleep. I hate it because the world goes silent without you awake and without you adding to it. I want to go wherever you go, even in slumber.

I know I fail and I fail often at things that come so easily to you. That is my work in progress. But I promise to work on what I fail to do right, not just because I should or for me, but because I want you to feel heard, seen, and loved. I want to always give you the same joy that you give me. I want to surprise you with how I show you my love, the same way that you show me. You deserve to have your dark days brightened. You deserve to have someone there for you when you get hurt and to help you heal the wounds. You deserve to have someone there to remind you of your worth and value when you don't see it or believe it. You deserve all the patience in the world. You deserve recognition for being the amazing person that you are. You deserve to have mountains moved for you. You deserve peace. You deserve true and honest love. I see you, I hear you, and I love you so much.