For Elena
Everything I never quite managed to say out loud, in one place you can keep.
One
It was raining the day we met. You were reaching for the last copy of a book I had already decided to buy.
I let you have it. I have been letting you win the small things ever since.
Two
Our first home was one cold room above a chip shop in Leith. The window never shut all the way.
We were freezing and completely happy. I would take that room over anywhere, as long as you were in it.
Three
There was a year I still do not like to think about. When your mum was ill, and everything felt worn thin.
You held us together with both hands. I am not sure I ever said that I saw it. I saw everything.
Four
Last spring we finally climbed Ben Lomond, the way we always said we would and never did.
At the top you were laughing, out of breath, ten years on from the girl in that bookshop, and somehow more.
Elena,
I am no good at any of this out loud, so I had someone help me build you something quieter instead.
Thank you for the rainy afternoon, the freezing flat, the year we survived, and the mountain at the end of it. Thank you for staying, on the ordinary days most of all.
Here is to the next ten, and to every small thing I still fully intend to let you win.
Always, James
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