Letter to a Friend

April 15th, 2k4

When I lost her, somehting in me died. I felt like there was an ending in me.

But being with you gave me hope. You kindled the spirit in me repressed by mourning, and you set my mourning free. I saw the horizon again; I saw the sky--not just the earth, the dark earth that swallows everything. I saw time, distance and future. I saw your future stretching far into the sky. I saw my future. And for a moment I believed again that I might have one. I saw our future. I saw the sun rise and set.

But leaving me--again--has left me sunken deeper than when you found me.