A Valentine's story
"Love doesn't know distance"
by Vanessa Hoffmann


"Wake up! Wake up!" I'm calling you.
You're in your bed and wonder what I'm doing there.
"That's not important." I say with a smile. All that matters to me is to make this day the happiest of your life. So I grab your hand, we are just running out of the house, through the sand of the beaches at night, running to all the places that mean something to us. I take you to the stars without telling you how this is possible, I take you to the end of a rainbow, through the most beautiful flower fields, to every place you would like to see. Your eyes shine so brightly, and you are happy, which makes me the most happy person in the world. "Why are you doing all this?" You ask me with a stunned look on your face. "Because it's Valentine's day and I love you. But I love you every other day too." Is my simple but huge answer. Just a few words with such a big meaning. While we are sitting on a cloud suddenly my smile fades away, I fade away. And you're falling asleep, falling back to reality. "Wake up, wake up!" Your mother is calling. You wake up, disappointed that you can't see...

I am too complicated to be loved
And still you do
How can you love me?
I don't see a beautiful girl
When I look into the mirror
I see insecurity about who I am
It's impossible to love someone like that
Still you do
I always cry around about my problems
How annoying that is
It's impossible to love someone like that
Still you do
I am often confusing with what I say
Even confuse myself
It's impossible to love someone like that
Still you do
I can have a strange sense of humor
Be weird in general
How crazy it is to love someone like that
Still you do
All night I keep you awake
Because you think too much
How can you love such a selfish person?
Still you do
I am so moody
That you don't have much chance to relax
It's impossible to love someone mean like that
Still you do
I am way too jealous
It's already sick
It's impossible to love a sick person

Since we became a couple
Half a year ago
I am a changed person
You brought my happiness back
I fell in love with you
Even though
I didn’t knew you in person
I just knew you…
The amazing, special person you are
So sweet, honest and caring
Intelligent, romantic and faithful
I was so in love

But still
We needed to meet personally
To be completely sure about this
You came to Portugal
It was like falling in love again
It was magical, and in time I discovered
You didn’t attract me only as a person
But as a woman too
I realized how beautiful and sexy you are
With each passing day
As we got closer
My love kept growing
The doubts just vanished
And I knew for sure
That I wanted to spend my whole life
Taking care of you
Making you happy
Never leaving or betraying you

Eventually
We got separated again