A Valentine's Day Message

In a departure from the verbose and unemotional material I usually pen on this forum, I want to speak to a certain person. She is someone who has come to embody all that I have left to believe in. Religions and philosophical ideals have only the weight of what influence they hold in world affairs and the impact they have on things I take seriously in political matters. There is still another side of me which is spoken to only in private moments of meditation and when I am with her.

It is the arena I go to for shelter. It is where I draw purpose and the strength necessary to act on that purpose. It was a place in ancient shambles before she came into my life. I would slouch there, mumbling to myself of honor and ritual as a rusty sword lay near the fire I would roast meager game upon. The glory of real and imagined battles haunted the place and made me only see the fantasy of me rather than the reality.

Then, she came like a tsunami. The waves of her washed over me and swept away the crumbling rock of that place. She cleansed me in ways I did not know I was dirty and healed me in ways I did not know I was wounded. The sword was made new again and the forgotten strength of the hand which wielded it was realized once more.

Now, she exists as the guiding star in my life. For the time I have her, she is my religion and my faith in both myself and the humanity she made feel apart of again. Her fight is my fight. My victory is her victory. Her failure is my defeat. My triumph is her justice.

Nothing I imagine in a future time does not include her. The tools of my mind and hands are in service to her alongside what she has shown me to be ... to me. For her, I would fly into the face of any deity and challenge battle for her honor. No foe will touch her while I breathe life and yet she defeats me with a single kiss.

No separation of distance or time will ever keep me from her so long as she would call me to her side. I trust her. I love her. I give all that I am and will be to her for I know within her lies my salvation and my redemption.

Sleep sweet, my princess. Dream deep and know that I love you. I close my eyes now in love of you, to meet you at our dreaming tree.