“Dedicated to my Enchanted”, not a usual letter starter… but this
is how all of these letters started that were delivered to my house on my 18th
birthday in a cardboard box. No return address, but one wasn’t needed because
your location was already well known…
My heart.
Love tore apart by unsupportive by-standers
and a single heart broken.
Just mines.
So I thought, but as I sat there with your
letters in my hand, tears rolled down my face because then and only then did I
realize
It wasn't just mines.
I had always thought that you had just
forgotten about me and everything that we had
You never fought for me…
You never fought for me…
NO, US.
And I could never understand why.
I never could understand anything ‘til this
very day…
You always acted as if you were never fazed
by any of this,
But here you had been writing me letters the
whole time that we were apart…
The whole year and four months that we were
Forcefully
Separated…
When hard times came about,
“Don’t forget”
Were words of code that we whispered amongst
each other.
Words only us, and a few close friends really
knew the meaning of.
Don’t forget me …
Don’t forget …
iloveyou...
No two words said more,
Yet no two words did I think you would forget
more quickly.
“My heart was never completely invested in
letting you go, and I prayed that yours was never completely invested in
letting me go either…”
The most memorable part of these letters…
No words replayed in my head more often then
those, nor had my heart beating
So
Fast
That you could literally see it jumping out
of my chest.
At this point the tears that were rolling
down my face previous to this line,
Kicked into full-blown “waterfall” mode…
Therefore causing my fresh birthday make-up
to run down my face.
Turns out you waited for me.
Just like I prayed you would.
“Dedicated to my Enchanted”
Yes still a strange way to start a letter,
but as I spent my whole 18th birthday reading and rereading these
letters you wrote to me, while listening to music it all began to make sense.
Enchanted by Taylor Swift began to play
And as I sat there and listened to the lyrics
I realized what it meant to not only be just “somebody’s” Enchanted,
But to be yours.
But to be yours.
You were enchanted to meet me…
We were enchanted to be together.
But you know what’s crazy?
You signed all your letters
“The one who lost it all…”
And finally your name…
Sad thing is,
I was the one who really lost it all, as I
opened my eyes to realize…
It was all
Just a dream …
My favorite part about this is that it is in the form of a love poem, and then it turns out to be a tragedy.
ReplyDeleteI also think the stanzas and line spacing really works. How did you decide where to do the breaks?