A Letter In The Future

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.