By Scott McGee
Written Aug. 27, 1999
Love, you have taken my heart, a lifeless, wounded and nearly dead thing, and made it live. Made it sing. Then you have taken it and given it a hopeless, incurable addiction to you. You have me unable to be happy without you as part of my life. You have totally ensnared me, and hold me in bondage. And yet, you have also freed me. You have brought me happiness unbelievable. You have loosed my soul again and taught it to fly. You have enabled me to live, to feel, to love again. You have made me whole.
Without you, I am incomplete. I am a half of a soul, torn tragically in two and searching for my other half, for you. Without you, I am only half alive, only half a person. I have a raw edge where your soul fits with mine to make a whole person. The pain of that raw edge tears at my heart. It hurts. I need you to be completed. I need you.
I long so to join my life with yours. To join my soul with yours, to be a whole person. To feel complete. To love you and be loved. To show you how love should be. To help you care for your children, and to share the wonderful children I have been blessed with, with you. To, perhaps, share in the creation of a new life, one born of both of us.
I love you this much, and yet so much more. You say I have the soul of a poet, yet even the poet within me can not find words and phrases to string together that covey even a small part of the love I feel for you. Words are not capable of such emotion. All my talent and skill at painting feelings with words is wholly inadequate for such a task.
If all the love songs and poems and stories of love were to be gathered into a bright and shining ball, and cast into the heavens, it would be but the faintest, most unnoticeable of stars compared to the great galaxy of how I feel for you. It would be lost among my love for you.
While I don't know of any way to put into words my feelings for you, I think that you can, like I, feel through your own spirit, the import, the enormity of what I wish I could say. I feel a connection between our spirits that transcends the bounds of the physical universe, of even mortality. I hope I am right, and you feel this too.
All of this enormous vastness of what I feel for you, I have to represent with words, so when I say the three simple words, I love you, please know what I truly mean. Know the greater, wonderful thing that can only be symbolized at best by those three words. Know that I love you.