I love you in the future tense: I will love you, tomorrow and the day after and the day after that until there are no more days left for us.
Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above.
In them and between them flourished the heat of life, the madness of love, and the sudden absolute certainty of the end of all that they knew.
You're brave and smart and kind and I'd be a fool not to trust you.