The day we met I didn’t know what I was looking for,
But I liked the look of you.

I liked your comfort with yourself and the easy way you shared
And how when I was with you I felt like I didn’t need my walls,
that my secrets could be stories to share with you at night,
that my problems would be small compared to how much you wanted to help me fix them.

We had dates one and two on the first day,
and three, four and five on the next,
and now I can’t remember how many it’s been but each day with you has been a date on the calendar adding up to a year of my life that I never expected to go the way it did,
And I’ve loved all my moments with you.

You make the mundane beautiful,
The serious humorous, the dreadful bearable,
you teach me to love in a way I never thought possible
And you let me teach you, too.

You are my confidant, my conspirator, my defender and my partner,
My best friend and my love,
And with you I want to weather the storms of this life
Hand in hand, eye to eye, forevermore.