She loves you no less.

When I met you I thought you were quite grand. A vision to my hazy eyes. I saw clear for once. You had a haughtiness in your step and a shake in your hip, your shimmy could drive any prudent lady, stark raving mad. Your eloquence and thoughtfulness bewildered me. I never knew a man could speak of worldly things with such passion and substance. It was the little things that added up in the complex equation that I called my love for you. Solstice never seemed so bon bon, laying next to you. I got lost. I vowed never to become "that girl". The girl who let the glare of fallacious circumstance drop her to her knees. You took a part of me. Maybe that was your angle all along. You had that classic way about you. The gentleman. Your slang like that of some old time crooner. Darling, babycakes, kiddo. You made me feel like Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. You were my Humphrey Bogart. Our first kiss was immaculate. I felt a million different things all at once. My consciousness was of another world. When the kissing led to touching, the touch was rapturous. Death by embellished hands. When the touching became lascivious, it was ecstasy. Death by amorous delight. They all warned me about you. They said you were nefarious. They told me about the drugs, the vices, the older ladies and the lies you always told. They told me I was nothing more than a trophy to you. Another conquest on your map of destruction. I never believed them. I came crawling back. Begging, pleading, promising to be better this time around. My mascara stained cheeks gave you such delight. You felt like a winner of the world's greatest prize. You made nice, we got on again just fine. We ran the streets of manhattan holding hands, laughing in the face of the naysayers. We fucked In the Angelika, while a silent art film about Paris played on. We got high on posh residential SoHo stoops. We did it all. We pretended to be yuppies and sundays we would go "apartment hunting" on the Upper West Side. You Promised me you would buy me the penthouse, and we would make a lavish room for Muffy when she was born. The realtor was flabbergasted by our behavior. We laughed until exhaustion, our faces hurting from such trickery. Bonnie & Clyde, Sid & Nancy, You & I. Weeks went by without any word from you, still I never lost hope. I waited so impassively. I counted the days, hours, minutes, seconds, nanoseconds until you would return. Eventually you did. Things went sour. You became indifferent, told me you were in love with someone else. I became obsessed, hatching plans to keep you by my side. You tried to make it work. We had a few more momentous escapades. You looked me in the eye and said "Darling, I truly do love you. Let's run away and get hitched. And buy a summer home in The Hamptons. This filled me up with an unexplainable mirth. I never saw you again after that night. You disappeared into the valley of lost love and disappointment. I started a new nightly ritual of vicodin and merlot, while you were already jiving some new broad. I never came out of all this quite the same. I lost a lot and learned a lot more. There are times where I will think back to the way the sun beat down on your colorful skin, and once again I will be filled up again with that mirth. Then I realize you really never were mine, but I am overjoyed to know that at one time I had a piece of you. I smile because that is all I am left to do. If I had a message to send you, I would send it on a postcard. One with the Eiffel Tower in all it's glory and on the back it would simply say "She loves you no less."