FREE LOVE LETTERS

Author: Paul Ransom

  • Love letter # 101

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    Paul Ransom
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    How could I have known that my ten o’clock would turn out to be you. I had no defences deployed – no armour against eyes. Nothing could have prepared me for your gorgeous mouth, the curve of your shoulders, the hint of freshly showered skin. Now I’m butterflies. Or perhaps I’m just an overly optimistic…

  • Love letter # 38

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    Before you were someone else’s wife, before I was a ruin, we were children. You are a distant angel, carved out of memory. It seems impossible that you are now only half an hour away – that you will be seated across from me. I will walk in that door, I will spot you, you…

  • Love letter # 7

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    …and in a blinding, beautiful flash – you. You have changed me. Perhaps you did not mean to – but you have. Not that I was bad before – just a fool who knew nothing. Now at least I am a fool who knows you. Everything is clear now – if a little raw. The…

  • Love letter # 5

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    The afternoon light at this time of year – it is the colour of your splendour. Like rattling up the hill in the old train, waiting outside for your flatmate to leave. Sneaking in. Springtime on the back porch. You right there. Me scarcely able to believe it. Every year the flowers make me sneeze.…