Love letter. passion... such love.

pauldrobertson
Author: pauldrobertson
Word Count: 493
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Love letter. passion... such love.

the final letter i sent to lisa, whom i loved more than any other woman in my life.

Love letter. passion... such love. belongs to the following groups:

All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Love & Romance , Short stories - Spherical Scriptings and WMG

Ah yes, late again my sweet and I lift my fingers to my lips and my thoughts wind around me in curls upon themselves, and it is your face that I see in the darkness before me. I think perhaps you are wild-fire, bright and beautiful and believing, leaving ashes and sweet smoke behind you, and who is it that does not turn to see, to look, at a fire, a light, in the dark of their lives. And in this you are like me. You know that.
There is some deep singing rhythm under our voices that turns people’s eyes from the inside of their heads and make them wish that they could really see. I think that it is a part and apart from our beauty, each of ours. Sweet smelling and weightless each in our cocoon of arrayed and arranged sense, here, HERE we go again.
Ah, yes. I think of you, I do. Too much, also, of course. I picture you, the things that you do, the softest touch of your hands, the strange sensuality of the soft muscular skin of your neck, the impenetrable hiss of your beautiful, perfect eyes. I imagine the things that you do, sometimes. I see you reading, turning a page, uncoiling your body and moving with the grace of an idea that has caught your mind in a carousel. The intensity of the fascination that you have for experience, each one. Running perhaps, showering, doing weird creative things with food, lifting a glass to your lips and sitting in odd masculine repose with unconscious feline strength. I pretend to see you. Sometimes I do. In a bath, naked and smiling dreamily, bubbles on your nose like a dope, drinking tea in a fit of existence, in a seizure of life.
As I probe the world in my staggered mismatched learning. As I burn the hours, exquisitely aware of the worn charm of moments. As I miss you. Yes.
I wonder at our difference… I am so afraid of so many things that for you seem to be more lush offerings to be eaten. And I am not afraid of some things, of few things, that I think drown you. I don’t think either of us has a choice.
And, yes, I think that we are both charmed, flipped with incense, majicked up, wearing luck and choice on a string around our throats. Skipping school. Getting away with it. Cross our palms and vacuum the corners of our rooms.
Liberty is a bitch bedded on a mattress of corpses. Someone French sad that. Robespierre. I think.
I envy you and I pity you, and I don’t know what it is you have chosen, and am too afraid to ever, ever ask. I am going to find some really BRIGHT golf pants and wear them EVERYWHERE and you’re not going to see.
That sucks.
You should get to see.

I want you to see.

  • brummieboy

    brummieboy

    You have a wonderful style .. marvellous writing …

  • Melissa Vowell

    Melissa Vowell

    heart hitting as usual

  • Suzanne German

    Suzanne German

    it’s amazing how easy it is to think that nobodu on earth can feel what we feel in our private individuality…and then you read somethign like this…

    funny thing…it’s not the touching and heartfelt words of longing that linger with me but the line about the bright gold pants and how you wish she could see them and that she should see them. It’s as if just saying that so plainly took an exercise in control…not to let it all pour out…all the feeling behind that statement about the bright pants….they’re bright and many will spot them – many that won’t know you – they will see them because they are bright – and she will not even though they are…...the irony and displacement in this piece i find haunting..i really like this!

    thanks for posting it!
    Suzanne

  • NomadicGoddess

    NomadicGoddess

    I have felt love like this, it is precious to have experienced, sad to have lost, and a special memory that will always be with you, great writing

  • Suzanne German

    Suzanne German

    read this again just now – and gott a say – it’s had a different timpact this time…
    these words:-
    And, yes, I think that we are both charmed, flipped with incense, majicked up, wearing luck and choice on a string around our throats._

    so very very touching…creative sensual stunning!!!
    lovely!
    _

  • pauldrobertson

    pauldrobertson

    thank you all v much… particularly to receive comments on written work – that people READ THEM! is such flattery in itself.

    paul

  • maisy

    maisy

    this is heart wrenching, if only more would write this way.

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