A gift made with every heartbeat
You are my whole world ✦
Today the stars aligned — because on this very day, you came into this world and made everything infinitely more beautiful. Every moment with you is a gift I will never stop being grateful for.
I know I owe you more than words could ever carry. These past few days I was absent — physically near but emotionally unreachable — and that was wrong. Deeply wrong.
You never complain. You love quietly, give endlessly, carry everything with grace I will never fully deserve. The least I owed you was my full, whole-hearted presence — and I failed you there. That weighs on me.
On your birthday — the most beautiful day of the year because you were born on it — I want you to know: you are the most important person in my entire world. Everything else is noise. You are the music.
Please forgive me, Zaara. Not just because it's your birthday — but because you deserve peace, and I never want to be the reason you don't have it.
Written in my heart ✦
You are my favourite story, my safest place,
and the most beautiful part of every single day.
Happy Birthday, my love — now and always.