Serpentine Valentine

by Giana Darling

“Falling in love with you was like stumbling from a dark haunted house into sunlight for the first time. I felt more warmth and acceptance from you in the first hour we spent together in the library than I ever had from anyone else in my entire life. You scared me, because in my experience, everything good was merely pretty gift wrap around a ticking bomb. You can’t know what it’s been like to discover every single day since then that with every layer I unwrap from you, there is only more goodness to be found. How much that has changed me and how I view the world. You are not just the light in my darkness anymore, lux mea. You’ve driven out so much of the shadow and now, you’re the light of my entire life. Of my soul. You accept every inch of me, even the dark deeds I’ve felt compelled to see done, and it feels like a miracle. It’s not enough to call you my girlfriend anymore, I want more than anything to call you my wife.”