It was so long ago but in just a moment or two of self reflection the truth was all but inescapable. I closed my eyes and opened my mind and looked inwards to see and I had a vision of you in my minds eye. My inner self could see you and revel in all of your beauty even though in reality you were many thousands of yards away. I could hear your laughter as a trickle of vowels and consonants poured into my ears, not as a winter’s storm all dark and depressing full of gloom and despair, no, but as that of a spring rain - life bringing and full of the promise of pleasure and laughter. I could feel the breath of your voice as the words left your sweet lips and came and caressed my ears, the small downy hairs around my lobes danced and swayed to the rhythm of your voice song. It was not only my visual and aural senses that enjoyed the pleasures that are you, the nose inside my body joined in the sensory party and I too had the scent of you. I breathed in deeply and knew that there is no perfumery in the world that would not bottle your essence for a single breath of you is like walking through a meadow full of natural wild spring flowers, and here I was enjoying a continents worth. My tongue too was ablaze with the sensation that is your flavour, a gastronomically indulgent palpation that could not be bettered by the best chef in the world.

I looked down at my inner hands and found your fingers but a small touch away, and, my darling, I reached out to you and crossed that divide and the yards melted away and our fingers touched. There was a small tingle as the circuits that flow around our bodies joined, and our cycles were in phase, we were as one. And from that moment to this I have had a small and special place within my heart that holds an indelible snapshot of you.

In my darkest moments when the stresses assault me and the enemies gather to do battle, I look inwards and find that special place within me, the wonderfully secret oasis that contains the senses of you, and I remember.

I remember what our future holds, for I have seen that future and it is full of light and love. There is a great warmth and tenderness and I take up the strength that this gives and I rail against those that would do us harm.

The love that I feel for you is unlike any emotion or sensation I have ever before encountered. It is all encompassing and fills me with such joy and strength that I am empowered to look to the future knowing that what will become our past will be wonderful. Wonderful my Darling in that it will be a path of pleasures and treasures and memories as we travel together.

My love for you is cemented in histories yet to be made.

I love you so much.