As the day was reaching it's sad demise we sat there on the beach -- she and I, and we talked...just talked. That was all I needed, all I wanted and all that I could have hope for.

I asked her a question; one I don't think I had asked before then and I really listened to what she said. It was as if this one answer, weighted with so many emotions, would let me inside of her --inside her mind, her soul, her being. I don't have to tell you the question nor shall I tell you the answer for neither are of importance really, and yet it's the answer that makes the world, even if only briefly, come to a halt. I never thought that life could be hidden in things so discrete. I figured life had to be loud to be heard, but it was she who proved me wrong. Not just that day, that night, that moment huddled on the cold sand but every day that I've known her. The crashing of the waves rang in my ears with her words riding on their peaks. I heard it all together in the spirituality of the sea. She changed my life, this woman I know, for she's given me the world. I feel so often whilst I'm with her, while I'm in her presence, that in my hands sits the world. I hold love, and laughter, growth and change all in my hands, in the palms of my hands. It's the feeling of knowing that when the world stops spinning it will still spin in her eyes, life will go on... if only in her eyes. One wouldn't believe how many times I've watched her, watched her smile, watched her laugh, and thought about what remains hidden inside of her still that I know not yet of. What thoughts plague her while she lay sleeping. I've imagined a world without her and the world would cease to exist for she brings color to the day that seems lost in seas of black and white. She brings sent to the flowers that hold back their fragrance. She brings sun to the day masked by gloom, and she brings love to the heart of one who was contented on believing that love was just a game. A shooting star I saw; that night sitting on the beach, and I made my wish....if only a silent one. I wished for her to know of my heart and of my soul. I wished that time would stop or time would slow so that I could stay forever in that moment.

As the day was reaching it's sad demise we sat there on the beach -- she and I, and we talked...just talked. That was all I needed, all I wanted and all I could have hoped for.