Romance Twenty-Four Seven

If I could make you feel that again, even for the glimmer of an instant all would be worth it.

I adore you. You are worthy, and beautiful on multiple levels.

A single rose is enough for the dawn. One moment of joy to begin the day. One expression of love to start the morning. One positive thought and feeling is enough to make a day wonderful.

“What do you want?” A morsel of attention, a sliver of your heart to feed my soul. To have hope. To hear you speak the words my heart screams and yours echoes, no matter how scared we are of facing the unknown. To have your smile brighten the path and lighten the yoke of these […]

I reach out, looking for you. My hand finds nothing, no sign of you. The bed is empty, cold as untouched as your heart after years. Yet in my mind you are still here, your scent lingering in the air, the bed rumpled and warm, your hair everywhere, little traces of your presence and love […]

“Are you interested in me?” No. “Interested” means a passing fancy, a surface attraction without depth nor strength to endure. “Passionate” about you. “Desirous” of you. “Ardently amorous.” Fascinated by you, longing for you, needing you like a fire needs air to survive. Interested is too weak a word to encapsulate my devotion to you.

Fantasy exceeds reality because the odds don’t matter and the hero gets the girl. The poet can change the world and melt the diamond hard heart with pretty words for the pretty woman. Fantasy has the soft edges, filters out blemishes and flaws that reality focuses on to the exclusion of the underlying beauty. Fantasy […]

There is frost on the flowers now, glistening in the grass among the bushes. The roses are starting to wilt as the Fall descends across the land, cold carried from Canada that wreaks havoc on growing things. Leaves that were green become brown, burnt wood wafts on the wind as days draw down earlier, crispness […]

Little things, like sending you a picture of plumeria on a dark day. A pumpkin spiced latte solely because you mentioned you were craving one. A cupcake, with a rose of frosting on top, lacking any thorn. A funny meme. A random sunset. A smile. A note that says one thing, but all the small […]

SURPRISE! What’s in the box? Is it cupcakes? A puppy? Does it come from Tiffany’s? Is it lined with black velvet, meant to reflect the light of your eyes? Is it macrons, sweet to the lips and bringing back memories of surprises past? Tickets to a concert? To The US Open? PARIS?! What’s in the […]