Happy 33 Months Anniversary Lover

When years are passing by like days,
and in my hand your hand is placed,

A knowing smile crosses your face,
a simple touch can still make my heart race.

When I can see my soul in your eyes,
and you see your soul in mine we realize,

That a love so deep can harbor no lies,
where our only tears shed were happy tears we’ve cried.

I love you as much now as I ever did before,
if possible, I may even love you more,

All starting from a feeling we did not ignore,
a feeling of connection we chose to explore.

I don’t know what it is that you saw in me,
what I saw in you was the utmost happiness that can ever be,

Even more so on the day when you and I
became “We”,

I can still smile and say with love and
truth Honey, I love you…

HAPPY 33 MONTHS

 ♥ ANNIVERSARY ♥ 

Lover, there is so much I want to tell you, a lot has been running through my head lately. I’m having trouble putting my thoughts into words so you will have to bare with me through this. I keep thinking about the future, about life, and what I want out of it. I keep thinking about us and what this relationship means to me. I keep thinking about these things and I realize they go hand in hand. This relationship is my future; it’s what I want out of life. I want to grow old with you. I want to experience this crazy love forever and ever, and I really think I’m going to get to. I want us to walk through new houses picking the one that would be just right for us. I want to see you walk around our house  finding things to fix and catch me staring at how handsome you are. I want you to pull the covers off me at night and then I have to get even closer, if it’s possible, to you to keep warm. I want to see you laugh like crazy at me when I do stupid stuff. I want to rub lotion all over your body because you laid out in the sun too long. I want to have a child with you and go through the experiences of parenthood with you. I want to see you and me chasing our little kid around the house, all of us laughing our heads off and having fun. I want to hold you when you cry and smile with you when you smile. I want to fall asleep every night with you in my arms. I want to fall asleep on your chest listening to the beat of your heart and know it beats for me I want you to be the first thing I see when I wake up and the last thing I see when I go to sleep. I want to see your bad morning mood; I think it will be so cute. I want to sit on the beach with you and watch the sun set, and I want all the people who pass us to envy the love that we obviously have for each other. I want to walk down that isle and I want to take your hand for the rest of my life. I want to spend all night, and maybe the next day, making love to you with an undying passion (sorry to be so blunt). I want to be fifty years old and still make out with you like a little schoolgirl. I want to cook a meal with you and us totally ruin it and end up doing take out. I want to sit there talking to you for hours about nothing at all but in the same time everything or maybe we won’t talk at all and just grin at each other realizing how lucky we are. I want you to get mad at me for doing something stupid, and I want you to bust out laughing when you try to yell at me. I want to lay with you in front of a fireplace and keep the heat going long after the fire goes out. I want to take trips with you to places we’ve never been and experience them together. I want us to go and pick out the hot tub we want with the biggest grins on our faces the whole time. I want the sales rep to get embarrassed when we sit in them and make sure we have enough room to do the things we want to do ahem. I want to hold your hand when I scream while bringing our child into this world. I want our friends to come over and get totally jealous because they don’t share a love like we do. I want to be walking into a store with you and trip and fall on my face and turn around to see you rolling on the ground laughing at me. I want us to run outside in the rain and act like total kids getting completely soaked, and when we come back in stripping down to nothing as we stumble into the bedroom, or the kitchen counter, or the balcony, or the dining room table, or an office desk, or the shower, which ever one we feel like at the time. I want it to take your breath away every time I say, “I love you” because you know it’s coming from the heart. I want us to be sitting there and watching our child take their first steps from my arms into yours. I want us to sit down with a box of strawberries, a bottle of chocolate syrup and a bowl of chocolate ice cream…well, I’ll let your imagination finish that one. I want to love you and be with you for at least forever if not a little longer. I couldn’t really express in words what I’m feeling right now so I decided to share with you SOME of the images and thoughts that have been running through my head. I just want you to know that I had never found someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with until I met you. I really am crazy about you, everything about you. One more month has passed, this is one more chance to start, one more month ahead to love, to laugh, to understand, to care, to learn, to spend with you for the rest of my life. I Love You, I always have and I always and forever will. Te amo. Happy anniversary my lover.

I Love You ♥ ♥ ♥

I Always Have ♥ ♥ ♥

And I Always Will ♥ ♥ ♥

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Your future wife)

Even Though You Are Miles Away

When you wake up with the sunrise,
Do I linger in your dreams?

For when I hear the morning bird call,
I always see you here with me,

Even though you are miles away,
I can still taste your scented smell,

It sets the mood for my day ahead,
And I face it with a smile.

When you look into the mirror,
Who’s reflection do you see?

For when I brush my hair after rising,
You’re in the background, watching me,

Even though you are miles away,
I can still see your sparkling eyes,

The deepest of those purest eyes,
Steeped in a loving smile.

When you’re going through your day,
Do I turn up unawares?

For when my toil is getting me down,
I turn around and you are there,

Even though you are miles away,
I feel your presence close to me,

To sooth away my troubles
And chase away the misery.

When you go to sleep at night,
Do I lay there by your side?

For when I lay upon my bed,
I feel your body next to mine,

Even though you are miles away,
I can still feel your warm kiss,

Soft and silky, on my skin,
To remind me of the love I miss.

And when you look towards the future,
Can you wait to feel my arms?

For though I long to hold you tightly,
I guess I’ll take each day as it comes.

Even though you are miles away,
It seems those miles are drawing in,

And each day brings us a little closer,
To when I hold you in my arms again.

I Love you ♥ ♥ ♥

I Always Have ♥ ♥ ♥

And I Always Will ♥ ♥ ♥

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Mila Baby)

HAPPY 30 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY

Our anniversary celebrates the day
When our heart’s found a love so true
I fell in love with you, my darling 
Before this heart of mine even knew.

♥ ♥ ♥

Love provided us with one another
Two tender heart’s became as one
The day I first felt your soft lips on mine
Is when a true love story had begun.

♥ ♥ ♥

I deeply love you with all of my heart 
So much more than I may ever say
You’re the man my heart truly loves
Much more deeper darling, everyday.

♥ ♥ ♥

You’re the raindrops upon my rose 
The intimate desires within my dreams
You’re the valley holding together
The love within my tender heart’s stream.

♥ ♥ ♥

On this special day together we share
My heart truly goes out to you
This endless love we have, darling
Will last us a lifetime through.

♥ ♥ ♥

HAPPY 30 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY

Oh mi amor, once again we are celebrating this special moment, we are celebrating the day when we met. I wonder why you chose me and why you are with me. I know we’ve gone through so much. So many hard times but many more good times. We share the same things, we try to understand each other, even try to be there as friends, as soul mates. I even ask myself why you chose to ask me to marry you and I have no answers, only your love. As I look into your eyes I see how much you love me baby, I really understand how much you care about me. Yes, it took me this long to see that you do. We have both gone through so much in our lives; we’ve both been hurt and have lost trust in others, but I ask you to give me a chance as I give you one. I don’t ask for much, only for you to love me as I am and not to hurt me as I would not hurt you. I only wish to be by your side and with no one else. I enjoy doing things with you and spending time with you. I get upset because all I want are those times with you when we don’t have much. As we reach thirty months together, I see that I do want to spend my lifetime with you, to grow old together to the end of our time. You know boo, as the days go by, my love for you grows, and each day I thank God that I have you in my life. I know I get mad and upset and it is because my heart is so strong in love with you it scares me so much to be without you and like you said, it is the distance that is hurting me and not you boo, the times when I need a hug and I can’t have it that’s when my heart cries but I won’t loose faith in us, I know that the day when we will be together is coming soon and I know that the best years are yet to come. All I want is to take us away, away from the pain and just to share what we have with each other. Sometimes I feel lost and out of touch, but when you hold me, I feel safe. I could sit here and try to tell you just how I feel, only I can’t find the words other than I am happy we met and have stayed together after all we gone through. From this moment on, we have each other and all the time to be in each other’s arms. My boo, you are my world I am happy we never walked away from each other. Stay with me and see the world together. Take my hand as we walk through these pains to the sun shining on the other side where our life begins. I love you very much mi vida. Oh mi amor, I think it is crazy how I never thought that I would wake up one morning and have fallen in love. Every day I look at you and every day I think of you and it makes me happier and happier knowing that I can spend the rest of my life with you. I know I will never have to worry about losing you because I know that you will never leave me. I know it when I look in your eyes. Oh mi amor, I still remember the day when our paths crossed. I met on you on a busy night, it was Monday night THIRTY months ago. Since that first hello I knew we would be together but I didn’t know how, maybe as good friends, maybe something more but at that point I didn’t know exactly what you meant to me… but now I do. You are the light in my eyes boo, the happiness in my heart, and just the thought of you leaving me breaks me into small and countless pieces. So, on a day like today, do we promise to love each other through good and bad, for better or worse, until death do as part. And though we are not yet married, I will never break that vow. Also, I know you won’t because the day I met you was the day my life began. As the day fades away and slips into night, I find myself once again clinging to my prayers. Every night I pray to God that He will keep you in His arms. I pray that He keeps you out of harm’s way until we can finally be together. Just because we are not be able to see each other for a long time doesn’t mean we have to give up hope. If you really love someone, the time and distance apart should not make a difference. I can wait and I will wait for you for as long as it takes. I will wait for you. I wouldn’t care how long I would have to wait. I would wait forever if that’s what it takes! I love you, I feel the same way you do. I love you Anas. I have loved you for a very long time, and I don’t think I am going to stop loving you anytime soon. I just want to say that I love you and thank you for all the love and happiness you’ve brought to me. You know how hard things have been for me this last year and I know you have been through the same thing, but when I found you I knew I wasn’t alone and I did not feel alone anymore. You were there for me when no one else was or when no one else understood. That means more to me than anything. I am so lucky that I fell in love with such an amazing person like you. I love you. 

I Love You ♥ ♥ ♥

I Always Have ♥ ♥ ♥

And I Always Will ♥ ♥ ♥

~ Yours and only yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Mimmy Wifey)

Missing You

My heart aches within from missing you,

My lips long for the feel of kissing you,

Right now all I need is to gently touch your skin,

To look into your eyes and see deep within,

Just one warm embrace,

Just to look upon your face,

Just one little touch,

From the one I love so much,

If I could gaze upon your smile,

For just a little while,

To know that you miss me too,

As I’m thinking of you,

To hear the sound of you breathe,

Knowing you’ll never leave,

To see you walk up to me,

Then embrace you tenderly,

To just be with the one who’s sent my heart reeling,

And brought about this downpour of emotion and feeling,

I sit here alone in my room tonight,

And pray that somehow this all turns out right,

I’ve never been one to do more taking than giving,

I’m not well off but I work hard for a living,

I’ve told you many thoughts that weren’t borrowed or bought,

And in lifetime, who would have thought,

That I have found someone who was just meant for me,

I can’t explain the magic or why this should be,

But there is one thing that I know for certain,

That this just ain’t over till one of us draws the final curtain,

For I’ve seen an angel and I want you to know,

If it’s my choice to make, I’ll never let you go,

Don’t know what life holds, maybe there’s no reason or rhyme,

To think you may be mine in a matter of time,

And though I cannot touch you and we are now apart,

My Love, you do dwell, so deep within my heart.

I Miss You

I Need You

I Love You

I Always Have

And I Always Will

♥ ♥ ♥

~ Yours and only yours forever, Camila Lima (Mimmy Wifey)

You’re Wrapped Around My Skin

Can’t get you out of my mind.

Thinking about you all the time.

Your love I feel is so pure.

I want to be with you so much for sure.

Wanting to hold you in the cold winter’s moon light.

Our souls can intertwine and take flight.

Out the window, in the air, we forever soar

I long to not wake so I can dream of your touch, forever more.

I daydream of your love and face

My heart, once dead, now I feel it race.

You light up my soul from within.

Can’t wait to feel your arms wrapped around my skin.

Needing to wake up with your heart beating with mine

Knowing this love is something, we both could never find.

Every corner, every dark place, your love can fill.

Your calls and voice makes my storms of life still.

We can be together like an angel and his wings.

Forever together like a bird that has a song to sing.

You took out all the pain I had once inside this heart.

It’s now a beam of light shinning through the soul of dark.

I don’t think I could live without you by my side.

Longing to be with you, if not, then I feel as if I could die.

I am more in love with you then the eye can see.

You’re the happiness in my life, you’re my eternal key.

I Love You

I Always Have

And I Always Will

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo)

To the Man I love

You are the man that walked into my life,

You changed everything from wrong to right,

You make me happy, when I’m sad,

You tell me things to make me glad,

You love me, even though we’re not together,

You promised me always and forever,

You stay with me, even though we’re apart,

You always keep me in your loving heart,

Looking upon the stars tonight,

Holding your picture close and tight,

Hoping that you’re thinking of me,

Wishing our love will always be,

I hope you know that my love is for real,

It’s not some game that someone can steal,

Deep in my heart I know it’s true,

That I will always, always love you…

EU TE AMO

Ei my love. How are you? I wanted to tell you that I am missing you like crazy and I can’t stop thinking about you. I hope reading this letter makes you heart as happy as writing it made mine. The love I feel for you boo is so big words would not be enough to express it. You are the man of my life and my inspiration for writing. I could do anything for you baby. I could give up anything or anybody just to spend more time with you. You are the love of my life, my reason for living. Feeling your lips next to mine is wonderful and feeling your arms around me makes me feel loved and protected. Let us make our love grow each day telling each other words of love. I swear I have never loved anybody the way I love you and being your girlfriend makes me very happy. I hope someday I will find the perfect words to express how much I LOVE YOU, how much I need you in my life, how much you mean to me and how happy I am to be yours. I love you and only you and I will love you forever and ever for all my life and eternity. You are the man of my dreams, the man of my life, you are MY MAN and I am all yours. I LOVE YOU so much.

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Baby)

I LOVE YOU

Your love is what keeps me going

My heart beating, my blood flowing

The precious words I yearn to hear

Losing you is the only thing I fear

I have faith God will do us right

We will not give up without a fight

Together we can conquer it all

Just keep your head up and stand tall

So many others care so deeply for you

Don’t get discouraged, you know what to do

Pray to God and keep love inside

You can’t lose your almighty pride

Because I love you with all of me

Without you I just can’t be

You’re in my heart forever, we’re never apart

Our souls were latched from the start

Anas my darling,

When I look deep in your eyes I can see how they shine every time you see me. And my heart is filled with happiness, as it feels reassured that all the affection I’ve devoted to you echoes in your kind heart. It’s great to feel loved and wanted by someone as sweet and lovely as you baby. It feels great that each one of your gestures and caresses has a reason to be; they are not just automatic gestures but truly felted ones, coming from the bottom of your heart just to cheer me up and make me happy. I would love you more each day if only that was possible. But it isn’t, because you already have the best of me. Our lives already walk side by side and I can only imagine good things happening in them. Forgive me if I sound too cocky, but it pleases me to know that you are happy and to know that my presence is the reason for your well being. I’m happy to know that you are happy by my side! I want to devote myself to you always; I want to see you this happy all the time. I could never neglect this beautiful love we share, because I can’t imagine one day looking into your eyes and not finding that bright flame of affection and happiness. Loving you gives me the certainty that my blood flows – happily – in my veins. You are the most beautiful, sweet and wonderful thing that could have happened to me boo, and I can only thank heaven for putting in my path with the strength and persistence of a cascade. I know I love you and becoming aware of all this love that invades and takes over me makes me very happy. I feel happy mainly because of all the energy that comes from you; you are a source of good feelings, fountain of virtues and of joy. If the reason why I feel the way I feel is due to you, I can only reciprocate by devoting you all my affection and attention, by dedicating you the deepest and truest of loves, and by making myself available for anything you may need. There’s nothing happier in the world than reciprocated love, and this is how I feel about our love: reciprocated, true and, for all that, extremely happy! I love you and forever and ever will, you and me together will make everything work perfectly…and I believe that THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!

I Love You So Much

Be Mine Forever?

I’m All Yours

Forever Yours

Te Amo

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Milly Moo)

To The Love Of My Life

I had spent so many years peering into the vast darkness of night.

I was searching for the answers that could complete the puzzle of my life.

Like so many nights before, waiting for a shooting star to wish upon.

And every time I found one I wished for someone like you to come along.

I used to lie in bed at night and dream a dream of you

And I would fall asleep feeling so alone and awaking as I always do.

To my empty bed with pillows piled to hug like you were near.

And I would feel so sad inside knowing, it was a dream you were not here.

So back to heavens skies I would go at night, and stare up at the stars

And feeling so small amongst it all, wishing upon my shooting star from afar

But after many long cold nights of searching through the skies

On a cold December evening I received the most amazing surprise

The surprise was meeting you my love, my angel from above

You shower me with tenderness and uncontested love

You give to me the strength I need to be a better girl

And to know what love is really like, you help me to understand

Your smile sets my soul ablaze, and your voice carries like song

You lift me up from feeling down when every thing goes wrong

You complete my puzzle and were the piece I could not find

But now together with you in life I can not get you off my mind

You are in my dreams at night and my thoughts throughout the day

I never thought I could love someone in every single way

I was destined to meet you my angel and that is true to see

I was made for loving you and you were made for loving me.

I impatiently wait until we can be united eternally in life

With you as my loving husband and me as your loving wife!!!

Ever since the day you came into my life, Anas, you’ve made me the happiest girl in the world baby boo. Sure you live far away, but I know in my heart that we will be together soon. I want to show the world who I fell in love with, you’re the sweetest, caring, loving man I’ve ever met and I never thought I’d fall for someone this hard, these feelings I have for you are incredibly strong boo. I love you more than anything in the world baby, you’re my life baby, and I do plan on staying with you for eternity. I didn’t think it was possible to fall for someone like this, but baby I did and you love me just as much as I love you. Which is an amazing feeling by the way. You are my dream come true and the one I want to be with for a lifetime. You make me smile, laugh and you make me feel special, loved, wanted, cared for. I’ve never gotten that before, So all I’m trying to say is thank you for walking into my life, you’re perfect for me baby. I love you and only you for as long as I shall live I will be loving you more. EU TE AMO MY BOO.

I LOVE YOU

I ALWAYS HAVE

AND I ALWAYS AND FOREVER WILL


~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Milly Moo, Mimmy Wifey)

Happy 26 Months Anniversary Anas My Boo

Our anniversary celebrates the day when our heart’s found a love so true I fell in love with you, my darling before this heart of mine even knew.

Love provided us with one another two tender heart’s became as one The day I first felt your soft lips on mine is when a true love story had begun.

I deeply love you with all of my heart so much more than I may ever say, you’re the man my heart truly loves much more deeper darling, everyday.

You’re the raindrops upon my rose the intimate desires within my dreams You’re the valley holding together the love within my tender heart’s stream.

On this special day together we share My heart truly goes out to you This endless love we have, Anas darling will last us a lifetime through.

Today is a very special day, 26 months ago December 7th 2009 I met my best friend and my true love. I still remember that day like it was yesterday, time sure flies when your having fun. I knew in those first few weeks of talking that he was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. He was more perfect for me then I could ever have even imagined somebody being. In all of my areas where I was weak, he was strong. He was like the perfect balance. I almost didn’t believe in those perfect relationships. I didn’t really think that true overwhelming love existed. I thought you just find that person who you fight with the least and decide your going to try and give it a go. With Anas Ahmed (my Nanasss) this was never the case. There was never a question about if we belonged together or if he felt the same about me as I did with him. I found the man of my dreams. The man who would be the perfect match for me more than I could have ever even dreamed up on my own. True love really does exist and I hope that everyone has the chance to find it. I have found mine and I never ever want to let it go. Anas boo, there are no words to express the gratitude I feel in my heart, that our hearts have come to dwell together, as one. You are my life baby, my heart, my soul. You are my best friend. You are my one true love boo. The day we met was fate. Our lives intertwining was fate. You are my destiny baby. I love you more today than I did yesterday, and I’ll love you more tomorrow than I do today. Loving you is the only thing that makes life worth living boo. Please forgive me if I ever caused you hurt or pain, all I ever wanted was to give you the happiness of the world cause YOU deserve it for the perfect, loving and caring man that you are. I love you boo and I always will until I die. Hopefully, when that day comes, I will still have you by my side and you will be that last angel face I see. I will be able to hold you in my arms one last time and tell you how much I love you and how much you really mean to me. I love you Anas MY boo!  These past 26 months have been the best months of my life. With you by my side I know that the rest of our years will be just as great and even better. Thank you for loving me the way that you do boo. Like the first time you told me you loved, I am telling you right now that I love you more and more each day and you are the bestest friend I have ever had. Since day one baby we’ve shared something incredible, something that most people only dream of. I had been searching for you all of my life and now that I found you boo I’m never letting go I promise you. You have made me the happiest I have ever been boo. You are sincere, caring, loving man, and I wouldn’t trade you for the world. I am so thankful and blessed that you loved me as much as I loved you, and that someday soon you will make me your wife. We have been together for 26 months, and I have cherished every moment since the day we met. I love you more and more everyday boo. Thinking about our future fills me with anticipation and excitement cause I just can’t wait to be with you. We make the perfect girlfriend and boyfriend team, and I cannot wait to start our lives as one, and hopefully to have four babies heheh Yes! You read it right… We are going to have an amazing life together raising a family. All of our dreams are coming true, Anas baby! Our life together is already amazing, and together it will only get better and better. I will forever be grateful that you came into my life and made all my dreams come true. Together we’re perfect, and I will enjoy spending the rest of my life with you baby. I love you more than words can say boo. From the moment I heard your voice for the first time boo I felt a connection to your soul. I can still remember exactly how you looked the day we first met. Your beautiful smile captured my heart and your caring way of treating me erased any and all doubts that I had ever experienced. When you opened your arms to me and told me you would be my friend I stepped into your loving, kind embrace and knew that I was “home” right where I had always belonged. You knew just the words to say to put me at ease and when your hand reached out to hold mine, I realized that I had found my future, my soul-mate and the love that I had always dreamed of discovering. We spoke for hours about every possible subject and never ran out of words to say to each other boo…Ah so many memories to cherish forever. I could see the longing and passion in your eyes and I am sure that it was a reflection of the incredibly intense desire that I was feeling at the same moment. The world had ceased to exist and there were only the two of us looking at each other and experiencing emotions that we had never felt before. When you first whispered the words “Eu te amo” into my ear as we confessed our love, oh boo it was the happiest moment in my life. My joy was deeper, richer and more intense than I had ever dreamed possible. I can remember the tears in my eyes as I said “I love you too”. Ever since you came into my life baby I have known what true love and happiness really are and these are emotions that many people will never know. You appear to me in my dreams and even these imaginary kisses and you rock my world and thrill me to the very core of my being. I can barely wait until the night is here, when I can lie in bed and dream of you once more. I want nothing more than to spend my life with you at my side Anas my boo. When I wake in the morning I want to find you there beside me. When I go to sleep at night I want to feel your arms holding me, protecting me from the world. You are the one true love of my life and now that we have found each other and are making a life together I will never again know the empty feelings of loneliness. You have made my life complete and I shall cherish your incredible gift of unconditional love and devotion until the moment that my body takes its last breath on this Earth. I love you, Anas my darling. No matter what the future holds for us I will love you until the end of time, and beyond. These words are my promise to never take you for granted or doubt the love that binds us for now and all eternity. I love you, I always have and I always and forever will. Te amo.

Happy 26 Months Anniversary, Anas baby I love you with all of my heart and soul

You are my world, all of my dreams and I want you to know that I’ll never let you go

You truly are the most important person in my life

Baby, not only have you been my lover but also my best friend

Through good times and bad we’ve stayed by each others sides

Holding on tightly to each other in each other we have found our happiness, our peace, and our home

Through the trials, obstacles and even the distance

We haven’t let it phase us as we show the world that our love runs deep and true

That our bond is too strong to break and throughout everything we are forever devoted to each other

I can never express enough how much I love you

How much I care about you and how much I can’t live without you

You truly are my soul mate, my angel, and my piece of Heaven on earth

God has truly blessed us for 26 Months now and I know He will continue to do so

Baby, I can’t wait for the day when we take that walk

Down the aisle and in front of our family and friends

Pledge our love to be everlasting through better or worse

For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health until death do us part

We do, yes we do pledge to always and forever be true

We do, on our anniversary and every day of our lives.

I Love You

I Always Have

And I Always And Forever Will

HAPPY 26 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY

~ Eternally yours, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Milly Moo, Mimmy Baby, Mila Darling)

Yes, you …

“You entered my life like a gentle sigh, like a quiet breeze blowing softly through the leaves. You were a stranger first, one who laughed freely and easily, who spoke of minor intimacies and common grounds, who made me feel strangely liked and valued. You became my friend, no longer a stranger, trusting me with secrets hidden, confiding what you liked and hated. We talked and laughed and, as time passed by, I grew more and more dependent upon your smile. From strangers to friends was just a baby step, a step a thousand others take every day. Without your trust and trusting ways, without your smiles and encouraging gaze, I would never have taken the step beyond. But the gentle breeze blowing through the leaves is relentless and never ending. We became closer friends, and closer still, until much of my life was centered around the times we spent together. We traveled far along the path of friendship, avoiding the bumps somehow, never stumbling, always in step with one another. You were my guide, my eyes and ears, the unfailing light that lit the road before us. Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, you brought me along our course, to a destination I had never seen before. You became my best friend along that journey, the anchor in my life where none had ever been. You did a good job of guiding our steps, a job no other could ever do, and it wasn’t your fault, really, when I stumbled. Somewhere along our path, perhaps where the heights were making me dizzy with joy, I simply lost my balance and fell. By the grace of God, I fell not to either side, nor to the rear, but fell instead forward, along the path we’d tread. My plunge forward was unguided, and my steps were steps you never intended. I fell in love with you. From strangers, to friends, to close friends, to best friends. And beyond. I’ve never been sorry for any step we’ve taken together, no, not even for the fall I took alone. I never knew, before knowing you, how empty my life had been. I thought I was happy. I thought I was successful. I thought I had known love and all that love can bring. But the gentle breeze, blowing softly through the leaves, carries the smell of wild flowers and still wilder beasts, and what you brought into my life can never be assessed. We are so very different, you and I. And yet so much the same. And our differences merge with our similarities, giving rise to something special and unique. We talk. Of all the things I value about this thing that is us, and there are so many I often lose count, I value most the way we talk about any thing any time any where. And each time I listen to you, each time I ponder what you’ve said, I learn something new. About you. About me. About the world. I’ve learned to trust in your instincts. I love the vitality and zest that is so much a part of you. I never would have believed the breeze, blowing softly through the leaves, could be so filled with life. I treasure that spark of spirit in you, that flashing flare of fire that animates all that you do. It’s easy to see how much you love life, even when life is sometimes less than lovable, and that love is always mirrored in your eyes and smile. You are never more beautiful than when that spark ignites and your vitality blazes in your happy face. And, yes, I love your beauty, shallow as that may sound. I love the way the morning sun catches afire in your hair, the way your nostrils move when you breathe deep breaths, the way your tongue slips out of its safe harbor when you think deep thoughts. I love the curve of your cheek, that soft milky canvas for the faint scar you won’t talk about. Your beauty truly takes my breath away. I love the way you trust in me, never quite whole hearted, but always just enough. That trust started as a small seed, I think, a tentative whisper of unearned confidence, often shrouded by a cloak of hesitation and unsurety. I could always tell when you faltered, when the steps we took were uncertain and questioned. And yet still you trusted me, with your secrets, with your feelings, with yourself. You’ll never know how much that trust has meant to me. I love the way you understand me too well. It’s uncanny sometimes how well you know my thoughts, my feelings, my moods, frightening at times how closely our lives have become interlinked. You know so much of me, secrets I’ve never told, thoughts I’ve never shared, parts of me I’ve never seen myself. You’ve discovered a window into my being, a window I didn’t know was there, a window no one else has ever found. It’s almost as if our two souls have merged into one, almost as if the hand of God has repaired that which once was broken. I love the way we have fun doing the strangest things, or the way we can enjoy each other doing nothing at all. We shop and walk, eat and talk, playing games apart and united. We study and drill, work and play, listening to music and singing the words together. We have fun with each other, frolicking in our shared pleasures, you enjoying the thrill of life, me just enjoying you. I’m not blinded by my love, though, and know you are not perfect. You are impatient and easy to anger, too intolerant when you should tolerate, too forgiving when you shouldn’t forgive. You allow the stresses of life to mold your day, allow the commitments of life to shape your way. I know your imperfections as well as your perfections, know your faults as well as your assets. And I find I love you not in spite of those, but as much because of them as anything else. Your life has touched mine. My friendship with you, my love for you, all that you are and aren’t, have changed my life in ways you cannot fathom, in ways I could never describe in depth.  I’m not the same girl I was two years ago. I will never be that girl again. The communication we’ve shared has taught me to value our honest openness, and I know I’ll never be satisfied again with less. Your trust in me has taught me to trust in you, knowing you will never intentionally cause me pain. Your spark of vitality has transformed the way I see life, giving me reason again to live and cause to celebrate. Your beauty, both inner and outer, has renewed the wonder with which I see the world, and has restored my sense of awe. Even the fun we share, that senseless sense of joy, has changed the way I live and think. As much as you’ve altered my present, though, the effect you’ve had on my future is just as great. I once thought I knew what love meant to me, once thought I had experienced all that life had to offer. I lived and I loved, and I hurt and I grew, and I believed I could never love again, could never willingly face the pain of caring. Love was a myth, I thought, and true love, lasting love, was just a lie told by poets. But I was wrong. In learning to love you, I discovered I’ve never loved before. Not truly. Not entirely. Not eternally. I’ve spent much of my life in love with love, searching for the fulfillment of a concept, caring more for caring than caring for another person. I confused lust with love, intimacy with affection. And when those feelings waned, when the relationships died, I wondered why I felt so empty. So hurt. You changed that, as you’ve changed so much else. You taught me how to love. I wish you knew the me of before, as you know so well the me of today, so you could see the difference knowing you has made. You’ve changed my life in so many ways, in ways small and ways important, in ways you’ll never know nor understand. The impact you’ve had on me, on the way I feel and think and act, will endure forever. Until the end of time. Like a quiet breeze blowing softly through the leaves.”

I LOVE YOU

ALWAYS HAVE

ALWAYS AND FOREVER WILL

~ Yours and ONLY yours forever and ever, Camila Lima (Mila Boo, Milly Moo)