This is a letter you have to imagine will be written in the future, more than just a few years from now. It could be in 5-6 years, or even longer than that, but the setting is the future.
A letter
in the future:
I may
have treated you like a friend, but you have always meant more than a friend to
me. So it is with my heart on my sleeve that I ask you of this now.
It has
been years. Years since that fateful day I first had a crush on you. Yet I
remember it like yesterday. The feelings, the euphoria, and the pain of all the
drama that happened are still much like a fresh wound: bleeding profusely,
heart racing, tears welling up tenderly.
Yet I
have stuck around all this time after we have parted.
Haven’t
you ever thought about it? I said goodbye to you, fully prepared to face the
future. No matter how many attempts you tried to get rid of me, I never left. I
said goodbye to you. But no, I was too weak, or perhaps too strong, to truly
leave.
And now
that I feel the time is right, I tell you once more why all these years I
stayed.
You may
have thought I moved on. You may have thought my feelings faded away at some
point. You may have thought that I saw you as just a friend. But the truth of
the situation is just the opposite: that even an ocean could not come between
me and my feelings for you. They only grew deeper, stronger.
And that
is why I have come to you now, once more, after all this time.
I love
you.
I would
do anything for you.
But
please spare me the one command of obliteration of my memories. I cannot give
you a promise I cannot keep. A task to forget you – what I have failed at for
all these years – do not assign me such a burden. I beg of you, please, do not
tell me to stop.
Do not
tell me to stop loving you. I cannot.
Do not
tell me to stop caring for you. I will fail.
Do not tell
me to move on. There is no place for anyone else in my heart.
You are
my love, my darling, my sweetheart.
No one
else can take your place.
