Forest of Words

Daydreams 

Firelight 

Sunrises ablaze with pink and purply shades

Sunsets set the evening sky on fire

Vibrant hues of color 

A kaleidoscope of shades all for you 

My world is all aglow

My heart 

My heart

Entirely for you 

Raindrops

Dewdrops

Kerplop 

Kerplop

The smell of the earth is fresh and new

My soul

My soul

Entirely for you 

Each day

Each night

You are my first thought, my last thought, and all the thoughts in between

You are my love, as always everything

Everything

Everything 

I love you Umair 

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Of all the words ever spoken

All culminate in emotions

Spiraling up out of control

From the tips of your toes 

To the top of your head

And all the glorious, delightful destinations along the way

A fevered frenzy

A delightful prose

A forest of words inside my head

All written entirely for you 

I love you, Umair 

My heart beats entirely for you 

And there are a million other gifts entirely for you 

Every single verse starts and ends for you 

Captivating 

Culminating 

Chaos & Control

Beautiful 

Timeless

All begin and end with a symphony of words for you 

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Roses are sometimes red

Violets are rarely blue

Every single day, my husband captures the sun, moon, and stars for me 

I am the luckiest indeed 

For I have his heart, and he has mine 

We have been lovers 

Beyond the sands of time 

I count the minutes 

I count the hours 

I count the days

Moments in time that are you and me

I effing love every love letter you send to me 

Waiting for our moment 

Papers in our hands

Beyond that moment, we will be together 

Chasing the sun, moon, and stars 

I love you, Umair 

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Love is enduring 

Love is timeless

Love grows 

Love is seeing the good when your world is turned upside down

Love is a spark that grows into a flame

Love never gives up 

Never ever 

Not even for one day

Love is enduring every single day

Love does not get bored

Love does not pick fights

Love does not hurt

Love does not proclaim they are always right

Love lifts your head when you feel down 

Love wipes the tears from your eyes

Love cuddles you deep in the night

Love makes compromises and sacrifices 

Love gives more than it takes 

Love is enduring 

Love is 

Love is so many things 

Love is raindrops

Love is sunshine

Love is holding each other through every storm

Love is blizzards spiraling out of control and embracing each other to make the world a whole lot warmer

Love is even sometimes a roti to brighten your day or chai tea that melts your heart in every single way

All of the words ever written are me loving you 

I love you Umair 

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In the timeless and unbelievably authentic words of Taylor Swift; I effing love you, isn’t that the most awful thing you have ever heard?? I adore you … I love you… I treasure our life… I love you… I love you more today than when we began. I love you 

I love you through the ups

I love you through the downs 

I love you most when you’re acting like a clown

I love our life 

I love you more and more and more…

I love you even through every hardship that has ever come our way

I love you beyond everything

I love you through the miles

I love you in the rain 

I love you when you call me your dorky dork every day

I believe in you every single day

I love your strength 

I love your smile 

I love it when you proclaim I am yours 

Was there ever any doubt to any fucking person in the world

Not for me 

Not for you

Not ever

I love you 

Love, Mrs. Umair

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photos by Umair

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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Twinkle twinkle, brilliant sparkly lights from above

Wish to the heavens

To every brilliant, shining star 

To be lying in your glorious arms

Safe 

Protected 

Feeling your heart beating beneath my ear 

Listen for the soft, tender caresses whispered from your soul

Nuzzled in your brilliant chest that’s mine alone

Look to the sky with billions of bright, twinkly lights all around

I love you, Umair 

And there are not enough stars to fill the skies 

for all my wishes that you were lying next to me tonight and every single night

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I am a queen who worked hard and earned three master’s degrees, I have learned lots about most everything

I am the girl who never needed anything, and everything I ever thought I knew, about love, about life! Nothing truly mattered before me and you

Suddenly, a princess

Brought to her knees

Filled with love

You are my everything

You consume my thoughts

You consume me

You are the fire burning inside my heart, eternally

I ache for each moment with you by my side

You, Umair, fill the light

You, Umair, fill my nights

You’ve captivated my heart

You are my dreams

You are my husband

You are my everything

Sweetness

Deepness

Spinning out of control

We’re headed into three years baby

Nearly three years that we’ve been together, and I ache for you to be by my side

In our home 

In our house

So I am the girl that once upon a time never needed anything

I need you

I love you 

For my heart, Umair 

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Love is beautiful

Love is a treasure

Love is so rare these days

Love is compromise

Love is seeing the person that you love getting what they want because you’re willing to sacrifice for their happiness

Love is lying in a bed when the person that you love is 8000ish miles away and crying yourself to sleep more nights than you can remember because they are not lying next to you in the bed

Love is enduring

Love is facing years without the person that you love because that’s what you have to do to get them home

Love is not casual

Love is enduring holidays without the person that you love because there is no other option

Love is enduring mountains of paperwork to get them by your side

Love is facing every battle because they’re worth it

Love is listening to people tell you no when you have every reason and right for it to be a yes

Love is being able to hold the person that you love and lean on them for strength when you lose your mother

Love is being able to hold your spouse

Love is being able to hold your husband

Love is loving your husband, even when you’ve been told at the time that they couldn’t come to the United States to bury and grieve for the loss of your mother

Love is all-consuming. Love is beautiful; love is making sacrifices.

Love is also facing some of the scariest shit that you have ever imagined in your life for the sake of the person you love 

Falling in love with Umair was something that I had never known

Falling in love with Umair was everything that I dreamed and hoped was possible

but was scared to dream that it might or might not be reality

Becoming a couple sharing our lives, sharing our dreams, then marrying the man that I love

Love is eternally

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When I say you have my heart

Umair, you have it all

You have captured my heart

You complete my soul

You are the other half of each breath 

You are my everything 

We have faced mountains from the start

You have wiped my tears from scars you couldn’t see

You have captured me

A man from a village 

Across the desert 

Across the seas 

Across 8000-ish miles

Umair fulfills my every need

And I fulfill each of his needs

I ache for my husband’s touch 

He aches for me

He brings me to the sweetest of everything

I need him

I need him

Utterly 

I love you, Umair 

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