I remember those mornings when I'd drive down the street and see you, wanting to pause time forever so that moment would be framed and I could admire you for eternity
Those days when you weren't mine to hold and I'd dream that maybe one day I may be with someone who's soul is as beautiful as yours

I remember those nights when we'd sit in the same room, on the same sofa and all that lay between us was a cushion and our insecurities, a cushion and uncertainties
Then I'd go home and try to remember what you looked like and smile because I've just breathed the same air as you for ten minutes

I remember those nervous laughs that conceal how I truly felt as we sat across the coffee bar table, and I try to stare but not for too long just to know the colour of your eyes
A mix of brown and green, that shouldn't work but for your beauty one eye colour could never be enough to suffice and compliment the complexion of your sun kissed skin

I remember how I felt when you said we should just be friends, like a rain sodden child on a Decembers night thwarted by a bolt of lightning through the heart, that I will always remember
Then I remember time as a distance and for what seemed like a thousand miles my naked feet had walked since your face I last saw. You emerged when I fell and held me, your arms were my sanctuary, my heart still belonged to you

I remember the first time we kissed, so unexpected yet so welcome, for ten seconds my heart stopped as our lips tenderly stroked, my hands for the first time ventured to places only in a forbidden dream that was locked away to stop the hurt of not holding you

And then my hands rested delicately against the skin that graced your hips, a groove perfectly created for my hands to sit, as fitting as a glass slipper, I held you for what seemed like forever, not wanting to move in case i woke, but could life be so cruel ?

I remember those nights when you'd stand in the evening window, wearing only your nakedness, so elegant and strong even the moon couldn't break through your form
You stood silhouetted in that window, the smoke dancing around your skin, how jealous I was of that smoke

I remember your laugh, your enchanting laugh, and how you said you loved me, begging me to hold you, and I complied, I was a slave to your beauty, you asked for my love and so my love was surrendered

I remember the day you bore me a child, My love for you was split in two and then multiplied, and I watch you cradle our son, the purest form of life lying delicately upon my dreams

I remember the day you became my wife, I held out my finger and you embraced it, I have you now, but you are still the woman I wish I could hold forever

I still remember the day we became homeowners, I wish we could lock ourselves away from this world, I've still not explored all of you yet

Those days how could I ever forget