Author: Paul Ransom
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Love letter # 150
In another world, my love…we still swirl in golden light. And in another sky we still soar, up on the updrafts, where all the little details melt to feeling. There is a place where you and I are king and queen – and there we walk barefoot, living on air and sunlight, needing nothing more.…
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Love letter # 11
I know it’s been a while but would it surprise you to know that I still think of you? Would you be amazed to learn that I still sing your name with shivers? Once all the hot angst of splitting had gone, and I could feel again the soft melodic beauty of you and me,…
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Love letter # 85
Yesterday, a friend of mine asked, “Does it ever go away?” I had to say that it didn’t. Even now, after God knows, my breath still catches. I could not, with any confidence, nominate the precise moment you carved your name inside me, but I can tell you now the letters still bleed. It’s not…
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Love letter # 69
All the usual things got said – it won’t last, that feeling will fade – but here I am…loving you even more. It’s the little cracks, the chinks in your armour, the grumpy thing you do sometimes. These, and other imperfections are the very structure of your beauty. If this is the so-called sickness, long…
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Love letter # 10
Do I need to list the reasons? I could go on … but surely you know by now. There is a key in the hallway – and there is a door with my number upon it. Everything else is yours.
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Love letter # 37
I have tried to be sane – to be friends – but I have failed. One of us is poison to the other. I’ll leave you to make your own determination on that. I cannot judge you. I cannot be in a room with you. It is as simple as that. I know it’s absurd,…
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Love letter # 41
Now that I am in your light, now that I have tasted you, I breathe in the age old epiphany of skin. All this talk, all these symbols – they are meagre compared to the soft crush of surrender. My bottled urgency has gone to water. The sting has been excised. It took the merest…
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Love letter # 89
You said: ‘How did this all start?” I said: “In the usual way.” Call it hope, call it plain old gravity – hell, you could even call it stupidity. We weren’t the first. Doesn’t everybody want to believe, if only just once? I for one loved the intoxication of star shine. And no, I don’t…
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Love letter # 110
Having endeavoured to maintain a modicum of sanity I must now confess to abject failure in this regard. I look back across the gulf that separates me from my old self, and the mad river is you. Naturally, there are blessings: the coldness that surrounded me, the dullness in my heart – they have been…
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Love letter # 24
For the times we had, I offer simple gratitude. I am profoundly grateful for the beautiful days and the satin nights. I give thanks for the times you called to tell me you loved me. I am blessed to have held you in my arms. It was my incredible fortune to kiss you. I thank…
