FREE LOVE LETTERS

Month: August 2012

  • Love letter # 191

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    by

    Paul Ransom
    in ,

    You were my vespertine angel, my melancholy queen, and I was your lone hero, fighting the darkness on your behalf. But in the end the night still fell; and before the morning came, I had lost you to the shadows. Now the moon is my companion, and the sun is the cruellest of eyes. When…

  • Love letter # 147

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    by

    Paul Ransom
    in ,

    Everything you heard is true. I did say those things. I was hoping to convince myself. I failed. In my pain I tried to hate you, to spill my guts like a shield. Easier to rage than to cry; to clothe my nakedness in lies. When the love I had could no longer be shared…

  • Love letter # 120

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    by

    Paul Ransom
    in ,

    It is not simply because you are 800 miles away that I miss you. Without you near I find I am trapped inside my thoughts, my own awful, wordy conceits. Leave the ego alone and it will vainly consume the day, leaving only an ache for the night. When I can reach out and touch…