Love Letters to My Husband, Another Night Needing You

It’s another restless night 

Where I lay here thinking of you 

I count the seconds 

I count the minutes 

That slowly turns into hours

My eyes are heavy 

I am dreaming of sleep

For in my dreams, you are already with me 

It’s like every other night 

We spent our day together on the phone 

It in no way replaces you by my side 

Longing and aching 

For you 

Most everyone else in the world gets to hold their love tightly at night 

This sonnet goes out for all the couples waiting tonight 

Umair and I have faced 861 days apart

Or two years, four months, and seven days, give or take a day or two 

Or 28 entirely too long months and seven days, give or take 74,390,400 seconds or 1,239,840 minutes, also 20,664 hours, and 123 weeks

I love my husband 

And I will tell you the same thing I tell everyone: Numbers don’t matter

They don’t mean a thing

Unless they are the miles and miles that keep you where you are 

Away from me 

My heart, my mind, my soul, and my body are all yours 

Just as you are mine

Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder

Baby 

My baby 

Come closer, Umair, so that I can whisper in your ear 

I have given you my hand

You already have my heart 

My oath of fidelity is a treasure I offer to you 

Ta gra agam duit 

Connigh agus cosain 

Forever Umair 

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