I closed my eyes and became one with my surroundings. Having a gentle eureka moment with a herbal twist, I realised I was part of the planet, the field, and the ground beneath my feet. I was a flower in a zillion of flowers, with the only abnormality being that I had feet instead of roots. But that didn’t matter to anybody for one precious moment. The soil embraced my toes and told them they were fine just the way they were, and so was I.

While for the outside world, nothing that made it into history books about human achievements and wonders of the world happened, this moment was everything for me. My life, my book. Peace, love, happiness and balance in a nutshell, a perfect world manifesting itself behind two closed blue-green eyes and slightly open lips.

In his moment, when my heart was at peace and I belonged, I was the purest essence of myself. I had my place in the universe next to my loved one. We were king and queen of the endless fields for the sweetest seductive instant we were given. The humming of the bees was a jubilee. Purple took over the world and embraced my pinkness with zillions of arms.

Earth filled all my senses with pure natural delight: My nose was drunk with the beguiling lavender smell, and my heart overflowed with the essence of love. The pink stranger became known as the purple bride; the secret of belonging was to commit.

Every white inch of my skin was stung by bees and mosquitos. It didn’t matter because paradise is perfect, and love makes all imperfections disappear. I was bound to earth, tied to you, finally not running up a hill for the first time in an eternity. The butterfly didn’t feel like flying anymore. The woman it gave birth to was all yours. It was the true me. I came to stay. My toes dug roots into the soil.

All I had on my mind was to cherish our tenderness, dreaming of your lips and mine forever, believing purple clouds would never spill rain on our sacred land. Your laughter was my siren song. I was enchanted. Tears of joy ran down my face, unlike ever before. Life was wild. Life was free. I felt like I don’t need anything else but the love in my heart, the smell in my lungs and your laughter in my ears. Then I woke up, and the scent of lavender was still lingering but fading. I was almost shocked to discover I had toes again. I put one foot in front of another and started to walk.

Dress: Maya Seyferth, Hat: Frollein von Sofa