Best Compliment Ever

I lay beside you, feeling you trace the outline of my face.

" Darling, you have the prettiest eyes ever! They are pointy at the ends and then go up in a triiiiiing and then have a traaaang here!!" - Gillian, last night.

I don't even pretend to understand what you're saying sometimes. Because to understand would be to take away from the adorableness of the situation. I often don't really hear what you are saying (sorry!!!) but I love the sound of your voice. It's the voice that soothes away my nightmares, and the voice that annoys the molecules out of me when you wake me in the morning.

Usually I hate receiving compliments. Because either they sound insincere, or they are insincere.

But yours, yours are not. Yours hold the truth of an innocent child. When you say something nice to me, it is a balm on my thorn ridden soul. All the sharp edges that have been ripping me apart for more than a year, turn blunt at the sound of your voice, stroking my heart.

If you were blind, I would be your eyes. If you were deaf, I would be your ears. If you were unable to walk, I would carry you on my back for all of life. But please, never be mute.

-Jacqueline