April 11th
the first one
My dear, my Razane, my baby,
Since I fell in love with you, life has not been the same. And I mean that in the most real way possible, not as something people just say, not as poetry, but as a fact I believe in. Before you, I was not living. I was existing. Moving through days like a ghost who had forgotten he was dead. A vessel with no one inside. I had learned to perform humanity so well that most people never noticed the absence behind my eyes but I noticed. I always noticed. I was a hollow thing dressed up in the shape of a person, an ugly person, and I had made my peace with that. I had even convinced myself that this life wasn't worth living, that I would just see it through, fulfill my role and let everyone get their use out of me, and then I would end it. I had it planned out, a mysterious (hehe I'm cool) log off the game somewhere around 25 or 27, once my purpose was served and my role was fulfilled.
Then you came. And something cracked open.
For the first time in longer than I can remember, I felt something. Not pain, I was used to pain, I had been swallowing it for years without even realizing it was there, just accepting it as being alive. But this time it was different. It felt warm, cute and sweet. It was emotions, I can't really explain how strange it was to feel that after being numb for almost my entire life, it was a new experience I never thought I needed. My entire emotional system had been offline for years, and you just walked in and revived it. I don't fully understand how you did it. Actually I do. You're just perfect.
I was alone for so long, Razane. Not alone in the way that's visible. I had people around me, friends, family, people who called me close. But there was always a wall, always this gap between me and everyone else that no one could cross no matter how near they stood. I felt used. I felt like a function, a tool more than a person, something to be needed, something to be called upon, some person to bring up just for the sake of a "self image".
You are the first person who ever made that gap fade away and disappear.
I hold your heart more carefully than I have ever held anything. I'm terrified of dropping it. I love you so much that the fear of losing you sometimes paralyzes me, and in that panic, I know I mess up. I know I hurt you sometimes, and the guilt of that eats me alive. I feel so guilty for the times I've harmed you by accident, when all I ever wanted to do was protect you. And then this dread creeps in, this horrible thought that I'm going to be the reason you leave, that I'll be the one who messes up so badly that I'm not enough, and I'll lose you because of me. It's a constant fear that I am not enough, I really know I am not enough.
You matter to me in a way that rearranges things, in a way I am still learning how to carry. I am still learning how to be someone who feels this much, because for a long time feeling this much wasn't something I allowed myself. But you make me want to try. You make me want to be a real person, not a performance of one, not something assembled from routines and defense mechanisms (numbness), but an actual present feeling human being. You are making me one.
I really love you. From the deepest place in me, my heart, the place I kept locked for years not because I thought no one would want it, but because it was only ever meant for you. Every part of me adores you, every single cell. You are so beautiful Razane. Not just in the obvious way, though your face. Your face. The way you smile and bite your face when you're shy, how you look away and then look back with that side eye that absolutely melts me. The way you pretend to be annoyed or mad as a joke, when you talk about something you love and get so excited your whole face lights up. You melt me every single time, like I haven't seen it so many times already, like it's always the first.
And your eyes. Your eyes deserve their own letter, babe. I want to look at them for the rest of my life and I genuinely believe it still wouldn't be enough time. One day when you're not looking away like a shy little princess, when you trust that you can hold my gaze without needing to hide, I am going to look at you and not let go. As I tell you I love you, as we kiss and crazily make out, I'll always be staring at your eyes.
I think about our future more than I probably admit. Two or three years from now, the life we're building toward even on the days when I feel like we won't survive this. The villa that's just ours, just us, no noise, no expectations, no performing for anyone. Just you and me and the quiet we've both been aching for. I want to kiss you slowly. I want to hold you like you're the most important thing in the room, because you always are. I want to spend completely ordinary days with you and feel like the luckiest person alive. Because I will be. Because I already am, after all you chose me.
I know life feels heavy right now. I know it feels like too much sometimes, all the times. dark and exhausting and longer than it should have to be. I know that feeling, I live inside it too, not as much as you. But I need you to know that I am not asking you to carry it alone anymore. I am right here, in this with you, every hard day and every dark season and every moment when everything is asking more than we think we have. I am not going anywhere.
We are going to make it out alive, you and I. Even though it sounds hard and not guaranteed, I'll choose to believe that. And when we do, you're going to get shocked by my tight hugs and kisses <3 (hehe evil)
You are my reason. Why I exist. My whole entire reason. My purpose. My baby. My sweetheart. My adorable sweetheart. My pretty girl. My beautiful lady. My awesome person. My significant other. My dear. My beloved. My cute cookie. My elegant gentle kid. The kindest soul I met. The person whose eyes I fell in love with. And the only person I fell in love with. The only person I adore. The only person I cherish. The only person I want to be side by side with for the rest of my life. My future wife. My world. My everything. And most importantly... mine... mine... MINE.
I love you more than I can say. More than I'll ever stop trying to say.
Completely and forever yours,
Miro