Letters and Truths of Immortality

I still have all your letters

Safely kept between the pages of my favourite books

So that when I re-read them for the millionth time,

I can smile as I discover them, in amusement and surprise

The familiar handwriting taking me home

A place where you and I sit side by side

By the bonfire in the stinging cold

You know the weight on my shoulders

Especially this year

The people I've lost and the person I've become

The pain I've inflicted and the amends I need to make

The miles that I need to go before I sleep

Nobody knows it better than you

And they may say what we have is abnormal, filthy, wrong

But all I know is that I've healed,

That I've loved you enough to be free of them

My lovely girl, beware

That some people excel in the art of love

And I am one of them

Because I have loved you fiercely enough

For you to be immortalised by my words

Somewhere between the kisses and the fights

I have seen you grow

From a girl wary of touch

To a girl that accepts mine

And that in accepting my touch

You accept me

Even in the places where the bruises on my heart

Use yours to heal themselves

In places where you keep me together as I risk falling apart

I glance each night as you close your eyes

And my cheeks are flushed as I smile to myself

The moonlight doesn't lie as it gleams through the window

And unlike the sunlight that accentuates only the promising parts,

It contrasts the dark and the light

As it speaks truths

That I can't even learn to express

But right now, today, the only truth I care about

Is that you're the kindest girl I know

Hopelessly in love with a broken girl like me