A letter written for you

For Aicha

my Lucie ♡

I am grateful you are beside me — and I never want us to be apart again.

My dearest Lucie,

I have wanted to tell you this clearly, in my own words, so you can keep it close: I am thankful, every day, that you are with me. After everything we have walked through — the hard circumstances, the arguments, the days that felt too heavy — I still look at you and feel the same quiet truth. A girl with your heart, your manners, and your beauty chose to stand beside me. That is not a small thing. It is the blessing I hold most carefully.

I admire you for more than how you look, even though your beauty stays with me long after you have left the room. I admire your character. The way you treat people. The kindness in you. The grace you keep even when life is unkind. Being loved by someone like you has made me more grateful than I know how to say.

I do not want us to lose each other again. I do not want pride, distance, or the problems of the world to come between us the way they did before. Whatever we still have to face, I want to face it with you — patiently, honestly, and with the same love that keeps bringing me back to you.

Stay with me, Aicha. Let this be the chapter where we choose each other again, and do not let go.

Things I love about you

The goodness of your character — your manners, your kindness, the way you carry yourself with a quiet dignity that makes me proud to be yours.
Your beauty, not only in a photograph, but in the soft way you exist in my thoughts when the day is over.
The comfort of knowing you are with me, even after we have struggled. You make ordinary hours feel like they matter.
The hope you still give us — that we can be gentle with each other, and begin again without losing what we have.

My promise

I promise to be more patient when life is difficult. I promise to work through our problems instead of letting them grow between us. I promise to protect what we have, and not to let us drift apart again. You are my Aicha, my Lucie, and I am grateful — truly grateful — that a girl like you is by my side.

With all my heart, — Yours, Islam