And in my days of loving you I have come to know more about myself than I thought possible. I am a never ending maze of emotion and gratitude for the time you took to show me that even wilted flowers bloom once more. Your patience withstood lifetimes of self loathing and internalized harm that took me to hell, where I could not see what life meant. I am renewed with a vigor to love someone as wholly as you have shown me. Because when I thought I was empty, you took yourself to fill me up without regard for what you would be left with.

"I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone."