Green Sleeves

There have been songs that filled my soul with emotion when I heard them. There have been images that have burned into my mind and brought tears to my eyes when I first beheld them. There have been moments in time that have left me in awe. This is what it was like meeting you.

It was speaking to Mona Lisa. It was dancing with Terpsichore. It was singing with Polyhymnia. It was singing Green Sleeves with you.

I have had the fortune of knowing many amazing women in my life. But I recounted meeting you as meeting the single most captivating woman of my life. It was a day that has stayed with me, and likely will forever.

But I knew I wasn't good enough for you. Not pure. Not patient. Not what you deserved. And I stayed silent. I knew you deserved better. And it pained me to watch the world mistreat you. To know that somehow this world could see you and not be in awe as I was. As I still am. It angered me. It saddened me. But it never diminished you. It diminished the world that did not see your greatness.

And ever since I've loved you from afar, and offered what support and help I could. And I've seen the fragile side of you, threatening to break. And my one prayer has been that this world not lose you too soon.