Dearest

[tendrecoeur]

It was not until many years later that they found each other. She had never stopped looking for him, and he, too, had never stopped looking for her. However, reality was their worst enemy. He now was committed to another, though the quality of the situation was less than ideal. Her heart was truly broken. Was there hope? The answer is in the lyrics he sent her...

DEAREST
If only we could throw away
Everything that was but that what is truly important
But reality is simply cruel;
Whenever I close my eyes-
You're there, smiling...
I hope that your smiling face
Will be with me until the day
I fall into eternal sleep...
Are all people sad?
They are such forgetful creatures...
For the sake of those who give love,
For the sake of those who are loved,
I will do what I can.
When we met we were so awkward
And we took the roundabout way;
We have hurt each other along the way...
I hope that your smiling face
Will be with me until the day
I fall into eternal sleep...
When we met everything was awkward
And we took the roundabout way;
But we got there in the end.

This song he discovered in September of 2001, and he confessed to her that all he could think of was her when he heard it. The lyrics he sent her, included some of his own, in which he wrote:

There will never be a time when I'll start to remember you,
Because there was never a time when I forgot you.

...She has clung to those lyrics to this very day...