Memories of a Lost Love

by Nora
(Wallingford, CT)

Dear Love,

Though I am in a committed relationship now, I will never forget the times I spent with you when I was not with my current partner.

You had tragically just lost both your parents and come back from the war months earlier. I had just suffered a break up that had left me vulnerable and lonely.

Seeing you again was magical but also sad.

We spent days together catching up, watching TV, falling asleep to movies. You snuggled up against me and I gave you a back massage, getting little drops of massage oil on my striped sheets and staining them. I didn't care.

I was so happy to see you. Being in the arms of an old friend was so intense yet comfortable. We held each other, we cried together, you cried to me and we felt intense passion together.

I still think of you with such fondness, knowing that we weren't meant to be together forever, but wondering what it would be like if we were, and wondering what you are doing now.

I wanted nothing more, then and now, than to take away all of your pain. To take the hurt and sadness out of your eyes and rewind and erase all you have witnessed and been through.

For those few days all I had was myself, and you, and the knowledge that with love, gratitude and compassion we would both make it through, with or without each other, always.

Thank you.

Love always...

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