The beautiful words he left behind

She sat down silently beside a window with a clear view of the open field. Spacing out as she rested her head on the palm of her hand, she couldn't help but remember the day she was left with two poems. Smiling at that once, painful memory, she wondered why it had taken her so long to understand the beautiful words he left behind. It has been long since he left and yet love lingered in her heart. I remember that day like it was yesterday; she told herself and soon found herself lost in the depths of her memories.
The sun shone as bright as ever, and it felt like the days were getting shorter. I must have been so happy because I lost track of time and everything flew by fast. My beloved entered our living room with two beautiful papers in his hand. I noticed he was dressed rather oddly, but I paid no mind to it. It was almost as if he was going on a long journey, but I hadn't realized that it was as I had seen it to be. He swiftly enveloped me into a hug and said three words that broke my heart, " I am leaving". So many things ran through my mind at that moment and I had so many questions to ask. However, in an instance he answered them. " I am leaving for France my love. I am going on a journey but I promise that this doesn't mark the end of our story." Words finally managed to escape my lips and I asked, "How certain are you that this isn't the end?" He smiled at me and softly replied with, " But we by a love, so much refined, that ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss" I didn't quite understand what he was saying. He handed me two fine sheets of paper embezzled with his hand writing and walked out that door. I felt my heart shatter more than when he spoke those three painful words.
The sound of a boiling kettle brought her back. She thought more and more about the two poems as years went on and she began to realize how nothing has changed since he departed. She laughed at how he correlated their connection to a compass. The legs may face a distance with each other but in the end they remain connected. Although she laughed at it, she knew deep down that she still had love left for him. Suddenly, the door of her home flew wide open and there stood John Donne smiling with the same look of love as he had the day he left.