I didn’t love you out of loneliness, I was fine in the dark. I loved you because your light made me want to step out from the shadows, and to walk alongside you in this life is the greatest privilege there is. To continue without you my love, would be like trying to breathe without air, you are my everything, my reason for every heartbeat. In your light, I find solace in a world that once seemed so dark. The love we share is a flame that others yearn to ignite in their hearts. Death my love, is not the greatest loss in life, far more profound is the void it leaves in the heart of the soulmate left behind. Love never dies a natural death, it dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source; it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals, it dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing…