You were his first awkward girlfriend. Holding hands, whispering sweet nothings that truly meant nothing. Telling each other your hopes and dreams. You grew apart, moved away, fell apart. You have a whole new life, haven't thought of him in years. However you are his biggest “what if”. He wonders sometimes if you all could have had a different life. If you ever think of him. He wonders what if all the time. To him you are a mystery Holmes would find hard to solve.
He's a hot guy in a crowded bar. You walk over and kiss him randomly because you just needed a rush. You don't think of it again. He lives with the scent of your skin and the taste of your lips burning in his mind now. He sees you as the persona of beauty and desire. You are his goddess. Aphrodite would envy you.
You fall in love with a man, deeply, insanely, run away and leave everything behind you in love. He says he loves you too just as much. You love,love,love and you're so happy. Everything is going to be wonderful forever. Happiness is so thick in your mind you could bottle it. Then he's gone. He leaves and now you are different. You lost that part of pure love, you can't trust and you are broken. He doesn't think about you. You pay no rent in his mind, You ceased to exist. You are a used to be and notch in the belt. He was unharmed, untouched and uninterested.
You meet him. You are broken, guarded and cold. He brings glue, a ladder and his bonfire heart. He quietly starts mending while listening, he climbs his ladder slowly rung by rung up and down as needed, and the slow burn his love builds sinks through you like a cup of hot tea in the winter, soothing and healing. He thinks of you. He thinks of you, not your appearance, not your body, not what you have or do not have, not what you can bring to the table. He thinks of you, your soul and energy. He can see if your happy, sad, stressed or angry with a glance, not to your facial features or body language. Straight in your eyes, he owns the keys to your mind. He sees you. He has put you on the ladder and you have been going up and down as needed until you are at the top and he says good job like he had not practically carried you. He sees you and you, you try so hard to blind yourself to him. You cannot afford to lose anymore of yourself. Yet you see him. You see the glue, the ladder and you feel the heat as his bonfire heart burns through your walls and lights a fire in you. Then you see him. You see each other.
In the quilt of your life there are many threads, many patches. They are memories, dreams and wishes. They are dark and colorful. They all come together to comfort you, warm you, remind you and allow you peace. This is your life, your history and your strength.