20. We met high above   Chicago. Both in pain. But   you shared your heartbreak- -for a collection   of moments my soul was n...

19.  I was impulsive.   One cannot force love to bloom in smothered soils.  

18.  You were that summer ’ s   northern lights. You cooked.Thank you — for sharing the boat.  

17. Lovely is not love Friendly is not friendship. But   through the ache: I learned.

16. If you ’ re going to rebound — don ’ t do it with your   High school scene partner.

15.  You were good to me A diligent observer   I hope you soften  

14. Time stopped in the snow.   Stay, oh beautiful boy from   the long-ago bus.

13. Breadcrumbs are savage.   I am nobody ’ s ‘ just in case. ’ Hear this: Crumbs aren ’ t food. holding magic  by @m.lart...

12. We endured so much. No one else could have done it.   I loved you. I ’ m sorry.  

11.  I should have loved you   better. Not The One.   But the best I knew.   The hurt is nothing   now — turned to gratitude ...

10.  You showed us how to   love harder.   First rebellion. The first, everything.

9. While they got married, You showed me I could, still, fly.   I ’ ll never forget.

8. Oh, the agony   of being seen. Dark chapter.   I loved you. Too much.

7. I ’ ll never know why your paint and my music can ’ t   exist together.   Time and space are cruel. But you wrote that alr...

6. I, available, Open. You at a crossroads.   Story of my life.  

5.  Mussels and moonlight:   And poems, I remember —   You, deeply, reading.

4.  Not a Tsar. But you showed me I could love again.   Thank you. Love, Sunny.

3.  Frangible and frail You were lost. I, a child. I don ’ t think of you. 

2. Sweet youth. You taught me: It does not have to mean the   world, to mean a lot.  

1.  What I remember   Most? My hand-crafted letters un-opened. Un-seen.