Letter to an absent lover

30 May 2007

I found this on another website. In a time when society seems polarized between jealousy and alienation and meaningless frivolity, it offers another (and unarguably better) view of how men and women can relate to each other and to the world. I would like to dedicate this to the memory of the young lives insanely snuffed out on the Virginia Tech campus, and my heroic but unquenchable hope that the US might, one day soon, wake up to the inhumanity of fundamentalist religion and, in so doing, give birth to a new moral renaissance, drawing afresh on what is true and immutable in that nation’s founding values and in the impulses, joys and possibilities of youth which we are all, parents and patriarchs, solemnly charged to nurture and protect.

Hello my horny princess,

I think it is such a good thing that human beings are horny. Enjoy this lovely primal drive and energy.

I just wanted to tell you that, when I come, you can expect to experience love and acceptance on a new level, you will be so blinded by the sun that again you may wonder what the stars have to offer. But the stars have a lot to offer; this warm, womb-like darkness is also our ancestral home. Yin and yang are not in competition.

Be free and enjoy. Even if there is adventure, excitement and uncertainty, this is life, it is not an “experiment”. You are not testing how you will feel or whether society’s rules and expectations are or are not correct. i think you are rather exploring the beautiful, mysterious world around you and within you and my role is to make you feel safe so that you can only find flowers and not worry about thorns.

Right now you may have no perspective on this, you may not think or realize that you are on a journey, but very soon you will achieve this perspective and you will see a great panorama that you never imagined. We do not need to plan that journey, we just need to let it unfold.

I have never felt so in love with and connected to you as I do now. However, please don’t feel concerned if your own signal gets lost, if you are caught up in others and, in those moments, forget me. This is normal. In those moments, you must forget me, the forgetfulness is a condition of connection, not just to them, but also to me. I am them, they are me; there is no difference, you will see it.

These conflicting feelings make me feel alive, and that ecstasy outweighs all passing discomfort. Passing by this route with you purifies my soul and makes me able to love.

Darling, I want you to know that I know none of this from a book, I am not repeating any theory, I know it in my heart with a very deep conviction that is only possible when everything you experience just matches what you expect. In this way what I have found is not faith or belief, it is science and knowledge; you can test it and it fits.

Have a very lovely weekend, I hope you manage to get your work done, spend nice time with those important to you, enjoy your friends, admirers and lovers, find exquisite beauty in something tiny and overlooked, take pleasure in the mind and in the senses, and touch people’s lives with a little of the power with which you have touched mine.

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