let me say that i love you. and let me say it not as a means to put a leash around your neck but in attempt for closure as i toss you into the air, hoping that where ever to which you choose to fly, you will eventually return back to me. i love you as a promise, that not a day goes by that i do not think about you. that i choose life today because that means im only closer to seeing your face once again. let me say that i love you out of appreciation. i was stuck in a dark cave, my pleas for help were just echoes ringing around down into the abyss. but you heard me because you right there with me. let me say that i love you for being there, my 17th birthday. for being the one that got involved. you were the first one brave enough to. and you didn't even know me. you didn't own me anything. but you took those pills and the razor blade from my hand. you told me that i deserved to live and i cried because for the first time, i believed it. let me say that i love you for the dimples in your smile. the light blue waters of your eyes. the softness of your hair and the way you hold me in the night.