I once saw a rose. It was the softest, most beautiful thing I had ever seen. To me, it was a wonder, and I was unable to think of anything that could possibly be sweeter than the sight and sent of a blood red rose in full bloom.

I was unable to think of you.

Now I can see you. I think of you and only you most of my life. That rose I once saw holds nothing to your beauty, holds nothing at all to you. It was fleeting a fading, burnt only into my memory, where you are forever in my eyes. You never leave me, even when I am alone. Forever I have you within my heart, within my mind. Forever I love you.

When you are happy, it is sweet. You smile like a rainbow and laugh like the rain that made it. Your face fills my mind, your eyes sparkling and dancing. They call for me to fall into them, which I gladly do every day and every night, every moment I am awake and every moment that I sleep. And you hold yourself like a goddess, ever loving and gracious.

When you are angry, it stings. Your essence flies through me like a storm, wind swept and full of distant thunder ready to bring the lightening down upon the world. Sparks glint through your eyes, threatening an outcome I never wish to see. Every moment I see this burns in my mind, blackens me and makes me fear that your wrath might toss me aside forever and I will lose you.

When you are sad, it is pained. The tears in your eyes flow like stinging streams of agony, eating away at that which is in me. My heart cracks each and every time I hear you sob, shattering whenever I know the broken cry was over me. As you gasp for breath, I collect the pieces I can find and try desperately to place them back together like a puzzle, only for it to fall apart once more as another round of tears tumbles from your sorrow swollen eyes.

Yet, through all of it, through every trial, through all the pain, I can see in those tell-tale eyes that you love me, and when you love me I am free.

I once saw a rose, however, that was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

Now that rose has been surpassed.