Love Song

Suddenly tonight, it's all starting to hit me. And I believe that where I am going, where we are going is meant to be, I just wish it wasn't going to be this hard. I can feel the tears starting already, and even though I act so strong all the time, suddenly I'm not so sure that I'm so strong.

I always thought when I got to this point that I'd be so ready to run off into the sunset and chase all my dreams, that I'd be alone and in my own little world of fulfillment and achievements. But then there was you. And there was us. And there was love. For the first time in so many years, through everything we've seen, everything we've done and all that's been done to us, I love you more now than I ever have and I find so much peace and comfort in you and me, that I'm not so sure I can give that up.

You are the only person in this world that I can always count on, the only person that would stop whatever you were doing to hold me, and the only person that would drive back down the road to have lunch with me when I need you. And I am so proud of you and so proud of the person you are becoming, the man you are and the things you will accomplish.

I know in my heart that this is meant for us, that we have to overcome this next step to move on together with our lives. But I also know it will be one of the hardest years of our lives. So my love, I give you this: I will look down at my hand at this beautiful promise ring that sits on my finger every day and I will smile and think of you, and pretend that you are holding me when I need it most, and I will find comfort in the fact that you have my whole heart and that you always will.

I have so many dreams and so many goals for myself, but none of them are as important as we are, none of them are as real as we are and none of them make me as happy as you do. So as we sit in the next year or so with an ocean between us, know that I will be holding you in my mind every second of every day while we are apart. And as we live our own lives on each side of that ocean, as we chase the goals and dreams we have for ourselves, we will both know that no matter what or where we are, we will make it. We'll make it through to the other end and be stronger because of it, we'll make it because I wouldn't want to stand under the Eiffel Tower with anyone else or visit Cairo with anyone else, or smile at anyone else in Morocco and Tel Aviv. You are my dream, and that's good enough for me.