SEE YOU

Those Eyes, they have haunted me now forever, sometimes even paralyzed my movement.

Memorized, there was nothing more that pleased me than to picture you. To close my eyes and recall you.

Mesmerized, but I could never see you as a fantasy. I know you completely.

I know you complete me.

And I know what I can offer.

Scrutinized. Looked everywhere. I have tried everything to find you.

And somehow my faith never dwindled. With each new failure it just gained strength and fervor.

Incentivized. And then this last time, this last travesty sent me reeling off, insistent that now finally and forever it would be. We would be.

That this time I would not relent.

Fantasized. There has been moments when I have wavered. Once - I could feel you outside. Feel you so close. And it drove me half to madness when there was no one on the other side of the door.

For just a moment I thought I was crazy.

But then I remembered you. Closed my eyes and pulled you back out of the darkness. Pulled myself out of the darkness too.

Sanctified. People believe in some pretty incredible things. The things they choose to believe - they believe with fervor.

And everyone seems to be fine with that.

Immortalized. I've only ever truly believed in one thing. I have only ever truly loved one woman. And at times I've wondered if it was a conundrum meant to guide me towards some unseen future. Which honestly was fine with me as long as you would be at the end of that path.

And then the unseen grabbed onto me and started showing me the way I should go.

Surprised. I can't tell you how exciting that was. To know I was finally on the right path. Needless to say when I got where "I was going" and didn't find you right away that was just a little frustrating.

But there was fostering to do, there was baggage and a past that needed to be put in its place. Old wounds that needed to heal and objectives that still needed to be accomplished.

Realized. And then suddenly, and not too long ago, it all came clear. Suddenly I was lifted up to another place and I have not been able to fail at anything.

All of the long-standing effort has been paying off in spades. It's just been one win after another win.

And somehow that's what I needed to do – I can promise you I could not have done it sooner or it would already been done already.

And now it's ALL done.

I cannot tell you how wonderfully amazing and completely frightening this possibility is.

Yet the recognition is so completely everything that I have ever expected that it is compelling beyond my wildest measure.

And I don't have to close my eyes anymore…

To see you.