Tiny Little Lights

Out there across the ocean tonight you are sleeping. And here on this tiny island in the middle of a crowded city, I am thinking of you. I've always known that I'd end up somewhere on my own like this, it's been a part of who I was to become for a long time and it was something that I needed in order to move ahead in my life. I needed to believe again in the magic of the city, in the honesty of the millions and millions of flickering lights and the mystery of how beautiful life is when I can stand on my balcony and look out over the water to where you are.

I've always been a dreamer and for a while, I lost that part of me. I've been learning that I can't give up hope in my dreams because they are what make me smile, what make me laugh, what make me cry and what make me proud. They are make me who I am, and I won't ever give them up. And for my whole life, I've never thought that anyone could come between me and what I want to do with my life, but I'm realizing more and more every day, that you are the one person in this entire world that I would give it all up for. You are the one person that just might make rethink things. If I'm learning anything by being on my own again, I'm learning that every day is a gift, that it's something new and something to take advantage of. And when you see my view out onto this beautiful city, you'll know how magical it is every single day and how it changes me when I just breathe in the air.

I look out over the water, toward where you are and I smile, because someday we'll be living in our own apartment, with a balcony stretching out across the city, watching the millions and millions of tiny little lights flickering across the horizon. Someday we'll have figured everything out and we'll know that because we spent this time apart, we became stronger and more ready to take on the world and everything we have that we want to still accomplish.