Thank you for your time today – for you smile and your laughter. Thank you for the tenderness of your kiss and the gentleness of your touch – our closeness enriches me. But already not two hours later I miss you – I would sit with you forever if it were for me to say.

How complicated yet revealing life can be; for in the simplest of ways rising above all else is your loveliness with its unwavering radiance illuminating a path I wish to walk with you. For me there is no equal.

Till tomorrow – I love you.

The words “I miss you” cannot convey how lost I feel without seeing you today. The warmth of your breath on my cheek; your gentle gasp as I caress the arch of your back; the shudder I feel as my tongue touches yours – my soul longs for you. I delight in hearing your voice – twice today makes me feel so fortunate – the warmth in your voice when I hear you say “hello” brings me to the brink of tears.

Yet the knowledge that shortly I won’t see or speak with you for five days fills me with dread and sadness. I am already starting to ache with the loneliness that I will feel and it will only grow as that time approaches. But now at least I can leave messages for you – the relief in being able to describe my feelings is palpable but only a pale substitute for actually being with you.

My need for you grows daily in a way that I cannot describe but for which I am truly grateful.

I love you.

I cannot bear to sit on my hands any longer whilst feeling as I do – and for now, whilst I have the misfortune of being unable to talk to you to tell you how I feel this message to myself will have to suffice. I am uncertain how articulate I can be like this today but I can but try.

My heart is overwhelmed by you; you consume my every thought and disrupt me so profoundly yet quieten the noise in my head like never before – I feel such peace with you. When I am with you the world just stops, yet of course time marches on and when, all too soon, we have to part I feel torn apart, broken and bereft. The sound of your voice on the phone, the sound of your footsteps on the stairs – these and more cascade waves of happiness through me. Your smile simply dissolves me.

I need you to be my ‘friend’ – I need you to feel wanted, cared for and adored. I need you to know that I am completely captivated by you.

I love you beautiful one.