Landfall

Did you know that I was going to love you like this? Back when our eyes first started catching on each other, walking around the neighborhood… did you have any way at all to predict how suddenly, how easily, how thoroughly I would fall for you?

Because I sure didn't.

I can't say you took me completely by surprise, though. It's not like I was indifferent to you during that first half decade we knew each other. I've said it before, and I'll say it again… you are the single most beautiful person I have seen in my entire life. And that has been true since the first time these eyes ever found you, and it will continue to be true for as long as I'm walking this earth.

But the way we connect…

It's deeper than physical attraction, love. There's a whole entire ocean beneath us, our waters mixing as if they'd been separated millions of years ago, and some seismic event finally brought them back together.

And really, babe… maybe that's what this has been all along. A tectonic shift. Continents colliding, slowly but with impossible momentum and finality… coming to rest against each other til the sun burns out the sky…

The day I moved in was the day my heart first saw land, across the way.

And maybe it took years to approach it, but I just know… some part of me had been surveying it through my glass, afraid to come closer sometimes, maybe, but seeing the inevitability of its approach…

And once I finally got close enough… once we started really spending time together, weaving our lives together even as loosely as we've had to do so far…

The more I've realized, this wasn't just any land.

It's fertile. Wild.

Sacred.

A place I could plant roots, and know they would take.

A place I could come back to, again and again, and always find something new.

A place to call home. Comfortable and warm.

So, no… I didn't expect it. I wasn't looking for it.

But I've never been more certain of anything in my life:

You are where I belong.

And, girl… I cannot wait to plant my flag in you.

Yours.