A Year Ago Today

I find myself here again
in my favorite stall at work
in thoughts of you
smiling to myself
remembering the past year

I'm so very happy
and very much in love with you
I've spent the last hour or so
rereading our early emails
and sitting here, it occurs to me
that I fell for you, for your words
very early in our correspondence

it was your words
what you said, how you said it
that captured and stole my heart
clean away from me
I recall the line of a song
"but words are all I have
to take your heart away"
that was so true

all you had were your words
but that's all you needed
they had me from the start
from the images I could conjure up
to your honesty
your straightforwardness
your pure and open heart
forsaking the pain
to try, to risk it all
to find love again

I'm so thankful that we
didn't miss the opportunity
to find a love
that's strong and true
and I am so glad
that I took the chance
and wrote to you
a year ago today

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