Love Letter

When the night falls, slowly eating away at the blue day, I lay, eyes awake, mind searching for a perfect image of you. I search my ears for a remnant of things that you say, But nothing I find comes close to the real, physical you. These thoughts of mine do race without stopping to take a breath. Until sleep comes from exhaustion alone, And I dream of being by your side until my death. Your absence is as the agony of a broken bone. Those few nights we shared a bed, I felt things I did not know existed in this life, And though, "I love you," you have repeatedly said, I will not be at peace until we are wed and I am your wife.