JL THOMAS

“I will be forevermore drowning within the depths of you.”

© JL Thomas 2019

I tenderly cup Helena’s face in my hands and look deep into her eyes – They’ve widened. I then tell her, “I’m not just falling in love with you anymore, Helena.”
She looks saddened and a little confused. Her voice barely a whisper she asks, “You aren’t, Darius?”
I hold her gaze. “No, I’m not.”
“Then…” she pauses and blinks, “… you… you don’t love me anymore?”
I smile and gasp, “Oh, my darling angel, I do love you, more than you will ever know.”
“Then what do you mean that you are not just falling in love with me?”
“I mean…” I take a huge breath and say, “I’ve fallen into you.”
She frowns. “Into me?”
“Yes, into you.”
“Can you enlighten me?”
I do just that by explaining to her that she is like a comforting azure warm ocean.
Her tone light, she questions, “I am?”
“Yes, you are and do you want to know something else?”
She nods and I answer, “After we had shared our first kiss, something magical happened to me, so therefore I want you to know that I will be forevermore drowning within the depths of you.”

© JL Thomas 2019”
― Jl Thomas

“Becoming a father increased my capacity for love, to love and to be loved. When I fell hook, line and sinker for Helena, I would never have believed that I would be able to give, that I could even consider sharing a single fragment of my heart with another- only her, but as I sit here in the rocking chair and a serene calmness surrounds me, I gaze down upon our four day old twins, Athos and Lucy. While I cradle these tiny little miracles of life in the crook of my arms, another level of love expands within the four chambers of my heart. Everything that once created my tumultuous past has paled into insignificance, and at last I finally feel as if I am not just systematically breathing in oxygen but that I am alive in the truest sense of the word. © J.L. Thomas 2019”
― Jl Thomas

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman

“I NEVER SAW HELENA COMING…’ © JL Thomas 2019

I can’t pinpoint exactly when it happened or even when the love that so firmly gripped my heart began. The reason for this is that in the midst of the calmness that was surrounding me at the time, I never saw her coming. I was blind until she spoke to me, and as that single word, ‘hello’ left her lips and settled upon my soul, the walls of the world that had been protecting me since birth immediately fell away. I felt as if she and I were the only two people balancing on the curvature of earth. In that priceless second I had fallen so hard for her that the ache in my heart never, ever left me. Throughout the lifetime that we shared together, I never stopped wondering if she loved me with the same intensity that I loved her – The latter was answered when death separated us, and I saw her on the other side twenty years after her demise. – Darius Carter. © JL Thomas 2019”
― Jl Thomas