Letter to a Lover

I found this letter on a chat site no less. I found it to be so profound, so moving, so poignant and so sweet. I knew I had to post it into my blog. The writer wished to remain anonymous, but agreed to let me post it. The note is made out to a lover he never found, the lover he has pictured, but has simply never seen, a lover he often listens to, but has strangely never heard, a lover only found in dreams and in this letter's words:

You want to get to know me...

Because you like to put your feet on my coffee table.
Because I love Cape Town in the winter... and you don't mind.
Because I understand your needs.
Because I trust your instincts.
Because of coffee and chocolate and ice-cream.
Because you borrow my shirts.
Because you know when to bite your tongue.
Because you enjoy our meaningless conversations late at night in bed.
Because you can't wait to hear what I think.
Because your family comes first.
Because you know my favourite song.
Because we both cheer for the underdog.
Because you taught me how.
Because I like hands that are bigger than mine.
Because Paris is just ours.
Because you choose me.
Because you never walk away from a problem.
Because you wrote the softest things on my back when I was falling asleep.
Because I had never been before you...

- I read it late one night, and simply felt inspired. I hope the words can move you too...

To Face or Fear

A thought of fear
Is like a wind
Deep in the dessert
That begins bellowing
Raising dust
And raising sand
It turns to a storm
Against a man
For no man can stand
The dessert storm
The swirling winds
That shade the dawn
Can tear the flesh
Clean from your bones
Pull down strongholds
Made of stone
Dry up the lakes
Uproot the trees
Spread fowl pestilence
And disease
Smiting all
Within its wake
Move the earth
Just like a quake
Till all that’s left
Is the howling wind
The deadly Siren
And the song she sings
But like the rock
Upon which she stands
I will stay grounded
Deep in the sand
Let wave and song
Crash against my might
Still I remain
Within her sight
And when the storm
And song are done
Here I remain
The only one
So let fear come
And let it pass
I will remain
To face the task
I will remain
Beyond the fear
I will remain
I will remain

By Jody Kolbee (Me)