I.
To find you
In a city of millions, somehow it was you — a first conversation that felt like an old one. The kind you do not have to start, only continue.
where it begins
A small love noteTwo stories,
Two stories,
becoming one
Not a timeline — only the truth of it. A handful of small promises, said softly and kept gladly, again and again.
II.
To learn you
Through ordinary mornings and the small storms in between, I have come to know the sound of your quiet, the weight of your laugh, the way you stay.
in the small, unceasing kindnesses
III.
To build with you
A home is not the walls but the people inside them — the lights left on, the coffee made twice, the door always open.
a life, slowly, together
IV.
To love you, gladly
Not in declarations, but in the small things — the seat saved, the hand reached for in sleep. For all the days, and for the very ordinary forever.
for as long as we are given