Grateful

Someone asked me to name five things that I love about myself. I wasn’t too sure I could think of even one but then…

1) I love that I knew almost immediately that you were the most important thing.

2) I love that knowing that, I didn’t have even a second thought about throwing over anything that might come between us, much less a continent.

3) I love that if I’m quiet, I can still feel, see and nearly touch our lost life.

4) I love that however lost and ruined I am with your passing that there remains a stubborn hope inside me that something beautiful may still happen before I leave the earth, too, and join you.

5) I love that even as I draw breath in the pain of loss, of grief, that I unexpectedly feel love grow randomly, anew in my heart for others.