We've come a long way these past couple of years, haven't we?
From friends to lovers to being engaged. It's incredible to look back and see how quickly time goes by when you're with people you love, and of course, I love you more than anything in the world—so these days have been a whirlwind of you, filling my life with joy.
It seems like the first time I kissed you, I knew that we would be walking down this road together. Somehow, I feel like I knew forever that you would be the one for me, like all my life before (so obscured by an isolated childhood and unforgiving military adolescence) I was only waiting for you. And now that you're here, I'm learning more and more every day, about how to be complete with you and about how to love you. The world seems so much larger now, with such infinite possibility.
Life for me is no longer just the Shin-Ra grounds, the SOLDIER compound. Life is our absence from each other on mission, and our reunion afterward. Life is talking with you about decorating the house. Life is eating dinner with you, sleeping beside you every night that I can. Life is planning the wedding, life is talking about someday having children, life is your name which is ours only to know. Life is learning from Angeal's mother how to cook, it's the ring hanging from a chain around your neck, it's the thought of you on my mind every waking second and the smile you give me. Life is you and me.
I can never, ever fully express just how much you mean to me, Cissnei. I don't know that there could ever be a more beautiful, more perfect woman than you, and though it might be arrogant to say I hope I'm the same in your eyes—I hope you love me this much, as well, and I know you're not a woman of many words, but each time you say 'Sephiroth' it sounds like a new word to me, foreign and fantastic, it sounds like it has meaning.
I can't wait to marry you. I can't wait for the rest of my days, can't wait to cherish you in each and every one of them, I can't wait for the rest of the I love yous that I'll get to say and to hear, because my existence was so devoid of them before you came along.
You're precious to me, do you know that? All the gil in the world, all the most prized materia, all the blue of the sky and depths of the oceans could never measure up to the presence of you in my heart.
Thank you. Thank you for loving me, and teaching me how to love you in return. Thank you for everything you are, and everything you have been and will be, and I hope that you will be with me until the Lifestream wraps us up in soft green energy and returns us to become a part of Gaia anew. I hope that you're a lily and I'm a blade of grass in the cool earth right next to you, so that I can see you open yourself to the sun every day, so that I can see the dew collect on you at night, so that my roots will touch yours and drink deeply of the rain with you, so that somehow, I can love you in each and every lifetime from this moment onward.
