You said
Five years of friendship went by in the blink of an eye,
Let's see how far the beat of a heart gets us

These words are the result of five years past.
Of how we met, discovering emotions so big at fourteen that people cannot find at fifty.
Of how you chased me, because you knew my heart better then I knew yours.
Of how I made mistakes, because I loved too much, and hurt too much, so I ran.
Of how you waited, because my name was still fresh on your lips as if I kissed you just last night.

Of how I came back, because your name was inked into my being deeper then I realized.
Of how you moved on, because she mended your heart the way I once did, but broke you worse than I ever could.
Of how I tried to hold you, but you wouldn't let me touch you.
Of how I lost you, because we just weren't the same.

Of how I lost myself, because I didn't know who I was without you.
Of how you were reborn, spoke to me in that familiar charisma.

Made me unearth that love for you from the coffin I left it in.

Jacob this is our story..

We live in our own era of renaissance.

I remember the days of our tough summer. You opened up to me about the man who gave you half your DNA and half your scars. You couldn't sleep; the memories that you called nightmares haunted your existence. How I longed to ease your pain, how I wished I could take every bad thing that ever happened to you and inflict it upon myself so you never had to suffer.

You told me that you didn't know if you were even meant to be here or not.

I have the answer now.

You are meant to be here, because you are meant to belong with me.

I love you somethin' fierce.

I deliberately fall asleep with my face towards the emptiness on the one side of my bed. I close my eyes, trying to imagine what it would feel like to have your skin underneath my fingertips, to feel the warmth of your body as I would try to steal it on nights like these.

The winds are harsh in the north, but they are worse when they are combined with the ache I feel for you in my bones. Some nights I'm left looking at your pictures and holding them against my ribcage; it's the closest I can get to you.

Other nights I fall in a much more peaceful state, because I know you won't ever leave my side, because tonight you are mine.

Tomorrow you will stay mine.

And every day after that you will be mine.

It's you and me, forever Jacob.

This is my promise. This is my vow.

I will tattoo your name around my ring finger.

I want to show these words to the world.