Happy 10th Birthday Zyterra
10 years ago today, is also the day I started living for the first time.
I didn't really know it yet though, because around this time I was about to go through one of the worst periods of my life. It must have been fate then that we met today, the time that I would need you most. I wonder if you knew that we would stand the test of time together. Did you see something special in me that day? The same thing I saw in you?
In the time I've know you, you've become much more than a story to me. You have become my refuge to take safety in when the world is too painful. You've been a voice for me when mine has felt too weak, You've shielded me (Do you remember? When I was being groomed, the guy was really scared of William when I first made him. I knew then he was really special and he was going to protect me), you've challenged me to be a better person, given me a space to learn more about myself and to learn that people like me deserve love, and patience, and gentleness, and dignity.
You before anyone else, taught me the meaning of "unconditional love". To see me broken, barely conscious, and at my worst, with nothing to give anyone and to still take me and cradle me... to give me something to wake up for... I love you. I love you so much. I hope you know that every day I live and every breathe I take, it is in the hopes that I can one day become someone that is deserving of your love. I want nothing more than for everyone to know how special you are. I want them to see you like I see you...and so I know that no matter how tired I get, no matter how bleak it seems, I have to keep going, because I know you would be sad if I gave up. You who has believed in me long, LONG before I believed in myself.
Thank you for everything you've done and will do for me, my art, my muse, my dear Zyterra. HAPPY 10 YEARS. MAY THERE BE MANY MORE!!!
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