08/26/2026
All my life, I had searched for love, placing my hope in all the wrong people.
I thought I was asking the right questions, just to find out I was looking for all the wrong things.
Finding love wasn't about deciding who, when or how, after all- that wasn't up to me..but what I did after love found me.
The choices I made, the chances I took and if I could truly share all of me with another person, openly and honestly.
I thought love would be the end-all, cure-all that would wash away all my ills and make me a better person just for having it in my life.
Truth is, no matter how many wrong turns I took and frogs I kissed, I still ended up in the wrong place waiting for the wrong one.
I had hoped for so long that one would come that would make the darkness go away and be the light that illuminated the twilight of my soul.
I prayed that he would ease the angst that troubled my thoughts and the ire that pervaded my mind.
I looked for an angelic beacon of light when I realized one day, that wasn’t what I needed at all.
You didn’t just cross my path lightly, you tripped over it with both feet, hiccups and feet flying.
I had thought all along I needed someone so pure they’d cut through my night, but as I watched you careen into my life with hilarity and virtue, I couldn’t help but smile.
Your eyes did more than pierce my darkness, they lit up my night with the relentless positivity that effervesced from your every laugh and giggle.
In an instant, you turned my world upside down and changed how I saw everything.
Those demons that ran rampant through my nights and wreaked havoc in my heart?
You didn’t conquer them with mighty gusto and heroic acts.
Not at all.
Your laughter filled the ebbing light of a fading day as you embraced my demons and did something I never could have expected:
You danced with them with graceful delight and impish pleasure, subduing them with a glee that eclipses anything I had ever felt.
You tamed them not with might, force or bravado, but with light, love and understanding.
Not only did you embrace my darkest depths, you championed my greatest strengths.
You could sing with my angels just as well as you danced with my demons..and it was breathtaking.
You were more than a lover, a friend or a soul mate, you were a demon wrangler and angel frolicker.
You made my dreams real and my nightmares fade away.
I think it’s time to give you something that you’ve deserved since the moment we met:
My love forever and all of me for the rest of our lives.
That is the best version of happily ever that I could ever ask for...and it all came true because of you.