Love letter: literary form and emotional expression

¶ … Norma

Though I shall try my hardest, words absolutely cannot express how profoundly and irrevocably you have made an etching on my soul with a celestial stroke. I can barely recall the time that existed before I met you, and while I was alive in those years, I was decidedly incomplete. You came into my life with a flit of sun and magic, and I've never been the same. I remember with the most vivid colors and strokes of memory just how you looked and just how I thought and felt when you walked into that coffee shop, three years ago and changed my life forever.

I was hunched over my laptop as always, drinking my third espresso. And several beams of sunlight gathered together, cascading through the plate glass window and I looked up without realizing what had happened, and in you walked… and everything slowed down. It was as if time itself had literally slowed down to a lilting halt, like a merry-go-round coming slowly to a stop. You were carrying your backpack and not looking at anyone; you were looking down at your phone and your hair fell partly across your eyes and brushed it away with one sweep of your alabaster hand. I saw the thick mat of dark eyelashes that framed your eyes, and suddenly you looked up and over at my direction. Your dark eyes were like two embers of coal burning into my soul and I knew I'd never the same. I could tell that you still hadn't seen me, that you were just looking in my direction, but I know instantly that I would regret it for the rest of my life if I didn't talk to you immediately. I stood up from my table and instantly felt light-headed. I started to approach you as you stood in line to order a coffee. The closer I got the closer the luminousness from your halo seemed to radiate outwards, and at times I felt weak, and at times that walk over to you felt like it was going to take forever, but I knew I had to do it.

When I got over to where you were standing, you turned and looked at me with those eyes and that face, and I felt as if I were in the presence of an angelic being. Your bone structure seemed otherworldly; your dark eyes shone right at me like two eclipses that were going to tear into my soul and I'd never be the same again. I swallowed and handed the cashier my card, "get her whatever she wants" I said, trying to sound as calm as possible. You smiled at me and I knew. I knew from the bottom of my heart that this was it and that you had to be mine and I had to be yours. You graciously offered to with me outside, and I frantically packed up my belongings to join you out there. We talked for hours.