Love letter # 157

Today I looked at you with brand new eyes. Had I not truly seen you before, or have you changed?

Perhaps the answer to this is academic – because all I know for sure is that when I saw you today I was unexpectedly breathless.

Sometimes, it is not the first impression that counts, but the realisation that comes after months – years – of knowing someone. This may well be the truest love; the one hatched from the seed most deeply buried. The one least likely to be based entirely on hormones and fantasy.

I walked away from you today – my head shaken, my heart stirred – and I wondered how for I had previously overlooked such obvious beauty. Was I blind or were you hiding?

Again, the answer here is less important than the stunning, simple fact of our abrupt uncovering.

So what will we do now that we have scratched away the film that kept these feelings under wraps?

Disappear? Deny? Discover?