I have told you before that you put me in touch with the better part of my heart—-the sweetest part. I’ve told you how much more joy I find in life when I act from that part of myself.

Another thing I’ve realized recently is that you are perhaps the only person in my life who has ever needed me to be strong. I don’t know if you can imagine what it feels like to be needed for the first time, since you’ve had so many people in your life who need you for so long…but I think you can understand what I mean, at least on some intellectual level, that it means a lot to me to get to step up.

I used to walk through bonfire after bonfire of my hopes and dreams, coming out alive and unscathed on the other side of each one. I figured I was fire proof. Then, I met you and you set me on fire. Inside and out. My blood burns for you. My skin burns for you. My soul burns for you. Everything burns and burns and burns for you.

Everything before you made me strong, but you made me sweet. Now, I’m even stronger. Let me show you. Let me be an asset to something greater than myself.