An Unsent Letter

My love for you knows no bounds, like a child finally getting to explore the woods behind their house. How cautiously they'll approach the forest edge before looking in and getting so consumed by love for the trees and the moss and the ferns that the child forgets the fear and plunges in. Oh how the child runs into the forest to embraced by only thorns and briers. The child feels no pain when stuck, only overwhelming joy that the forest can touch them and leave a mark that's carried and remembered. I love you like that child loves the forest. I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so close. I will love you till your face is fogged by distant memory. I will love you no matter where you go and who you will see, I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. If everything around us crumbled and it all began to fall, you could count on my love to ground you because it stands forevermore. I will love you as long as the Earth circles the Sun. I will love you, even if you decide right now, on this altar, that I am not the one you want. But before you decide, I want you to know that in me, you can confide in, it's me you'll always know. No matter the day, the hour, or the insults we have hurled, I will love you. I'll love you in the snow and I will love you in the rain. I will love you even if I know you could never love me again. For if it is was true, atleast my love was well spent. I will love you for forever and then some.