Before I close the chapter to the book we’ll never write
I want to say
it’s been said, you don’t fall in love with the person
you fall in love with who you are with that person
until I stood in your presence, I never understood those words
it was by your side
that I fell in love with myself
it was through your strength that I came to know my own
and my gentle sweet loving nature
a part of me long dead
after something called love that I only knew once
I don’t know how our story would have ended
it was only an introduction
but being introduced to myself
was the greatest gift of all