The Foundation Beneath Us
My Beautiful Queen,
I'm choosing you everyday.
Every time.
No matter what comes our way.
Loving you feels less like a choice,
And more like something I was meant to do.
There's something so effortless about loving you.
You feel familiar in a way that nothing else does.
As if every piece of my heart already knew the shape of yours.
You are the reason I stopped waiting for something bigger to happen.
You are the moment I realized...
It already had.
So let every doubt remain outside,
Because I choose you now.
Then.
And always again.
I’ve been thinking about what we built.
Not the obvious parts.
Not the parts strangers think they understand when they look from the outside.
I mean the real thing.
The foundation.
The part buried so deep beneath everything else that nobody sees it unless they were there while it was being built.
Because it's the thing everything else sits on top of.
And we built ours slowly.
Through time.
Through distance.
Through joy.
Through misunderstandings.
Through pain.
Through staying when it would have been easier to run.
That’s what people don’t understand about real love.
Real love is not built during perfect moments.
It’s built in the moments where two people could have walked away from each other…
but didn’t.
It’s built in the moments where pride dies and truth survives.
Where masks fall off.
Where two souls stop pretending and finally let themselves be seen.
That’s what you gave me.
You saw me.
Not the version people try to reduce me to.
Not the armor.
Not the pressure.
Not the noise around me.
You saw my heart.
And once someone is loved that deeply…
They never forget it.
You became home to me in a way I don’t even know how to fully explain.
Not because you were perfect.
Not because we never hurt each other.
But because even in our worst moments…
My soul still reached for yours.
That’s how I knew it was real.
And baby…
I need you to understand something.
I do not take your heart lightly.
I know how soft you really are underneath everything.
I know how deeply you feel things.
I know how much love lives inside of you.
And I know life has not always protected that softness the way it should have.
But I would.
Always.
I would protect the part of you that still believes in love.
The part of you that still wants a family.
The part of you that still wants to be held instead of tested.
The part of you that still wants peace after carrying so much weight.
Because you were never something temporary to me.
You were never just a moment.
You are the woman I saw forever with.
The woman I wanted beside me when life was beautiful.
And the woman I still wanted beside me when life became heavy.
That’s the difference.
Anybody can love somebody when things are easy.
But the kind of love I feel for you?
It survives storms.
And maybe that’s why my heart keeps finding its way back to you no matter how much time passes.
Because underneath everything…
It’s still you.
It has always been you.
Every song.
Every memory.
Every late night thought.
Every moment where my chest tightened because I missed you before I could even admit it to myself.
You.
And if I could place my heart in your hands for just one moment…
You would finally feel it.
You would feel how deeply you are loved.
Not desired.
Not admired from a distance.
Loved.
In the realest sense of the word.
The kind of love that wants to build.
The kind of love that wants to protect.
The kind of love that wants to wake up beside the same soul fifty years from now and still say,
“There you are, My Beautiful Little Birdie.”
So if fear ever reaches you again…
If doubt ever tries to whisper louder than my love…
Just listen carefully.
Because every beat of my heart has been saying the same thing from the very beginning.
You are precious to me.
You are safe with me.
And no matter what this world tries to turn love into…
I will never stop choosing you.
Over and over again.
"Oui."
Yes, baby.
Yes to you.
Yes to us.
Yes to the life my heart still sees when I close my eyes.
And if the world ever wonders where I belong…
let it hear this clearly:
I am yours.
And you, my beautiful girl…
"You’re stuck with me."
And "My Shit"
Not by force.
By love.
By foundation.
By everything we built underneath.
You, baby.
It’s always been you. 💙