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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457757" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Letter That Changes Everything</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This letter may serve as a new beginning, or foretell a tragic end-<br>Yet, the thought of not writing it is not one with which I may contend! <br>My prayers are for the former, as I dread the latter, <br>Though my soul yearns to have the final say in the matter<br>Of what form its counterpoint may finally take; <br>Thus, with this leap of faith, I may finally make-<br>Known, what it is I suspect you have already guessed: <br>Your's is the soul that mine covets more than all the rest! <br>This though, I shan't allow to come at my heart's expense, <br>Where its own longing does not meet with recompense.<br>No longer may I be your friend, and naught more; <br>At the end of each consort, I am left to wonder: 'what more<br>Are we meant to be? '-certainly not just surreptitious friends.<br>Is my heart to wither, whilst my mind pretends? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No! I am not blind to your amorous reciprocation<br>Of the feelings I have for your, and their desperation! <br>Your precarious position is not lost upon me-<br>I know it all too well, as its cost, upon me-<br>Tolls deeply and tragically-yet, I am much to blame! <br>My feelings, as your's, are much the same<br>As they were so many years ago-<br>The difference: I commanded my fears to go! <br>Without the burden of same, doubts no longer linger.<br>I may now count myself worthy, to place upon your finger<br>The quintessential token of my commitment to you-<br>Though, through forfeit I lost, and the forfeit went to you, <br>In the form of a life that you have deftly built.<br>For my part, my love's perpetual flower did not wilt, <br>She is more alive today than she ever was-<br>Incapable of surrender's preservation-she never does! <br>Our collective inconvenience does not cause our love's retreat; <br>Not even a cosmic cataclism should cause it to fleet, <br>First from our sight, then from the safe confines of our heart's coffers, <br>Thus taking with it all the beautificence it heretofore offers! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This thought is banished, and all like it, disallowed; <br>This shall never be, and all talk of such is disavowed! <br>Whether you allow our souls to ally, only time may tell-<br>If not though, you owe it to thine own heart to pray tell<br>Why not, in the face of all the love for each we possess-<br>The answer: fear, would need be my only guess! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our friendship is precious to me, as is the love, long ago born-<br>The more we celebrate the former, the more I mourn<br>The latter-a sort of dichotomy, where love's scorn<br>Is also the glory of the heart, which both doth adorn! <br>The mere thought that my own social immaturity<br>Is ultimately to blame for my amorous insecurity<br>Is nearly too much to take, but I must! <br>My heart, mind, and soul are all in accord, so I trust<br>My instincts about what must be done in this regard; <br>Though, mere thought upon consequences makes it so very hard-<br>As if I do not trust myself in my heart's confusion<br>And give it an ultimatum, that invites the intrusion<br>Of your's even further into my most inner sanctum-<br>Should this not come to pass, my lofty mind, heart, and soul are to blame-thank them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Absence, though, has not proven a deterrent before, <br>So, why then might I risk the vanquish of thine grace, evermore! ? <br>The answer lies in the need for unequivocal clarity, <br>Where the wants of this heart comport with the verity<br>That only your's married with it, may reveal! <br>Anything else is acquiescence, which serves to further steal<br>Away a portion of my ever-conflicted soul; <br>I need you, if I am ever to feel whole-<br>It is quite simplistic, yet for so long it evaded me: <br>All the while, the Gracious God who created thee, <br>Has steered me ever-lovingly in your direction, <br>Where I may reap the reward that is your affection! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As fair warning, I am no longer the man I used to be: <br>I now celebrate beauty, that before I refused to see! <br>Where ere, I queried my strength, now I do not, <br>Thus, this is my attempt to alter us, to be what we ought! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If allowance for our real friendship may not be made, <br>Because you have accepted your fate, and may not be swayed, <br>Then I need to know now, so that I may prepare<br>For the burden that my heart will be forced to bear, <br>When all I possess are memories and you are no longer there<br>To be the beauteous reality, that otherwise my mind could only dare! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sikerly, this is meant for our future betterment, not to hinder-<br>Or else, I would not dare risk the loss of a friendship, so tender, <br>For the sake of a hollow dream that may never be; <br>Yet, this long-aspired romance is one that we shall never see<br>Unless all is risked with this blind leap of faith, <br>Where a world of amorous wonder would be created from a wraith! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest you believe my intentions are not entirely pure, <br>My heart yearns still-a want that many years without you could not cure! <br>A thousand profoundly powerful poems could not properly expound<br>The puissant sense of purpose I feel when you are around-<br>Yet, when you are gone, the passion presents still-<br>A passion so powerful that friendship alone may not fulfill! <br>In any other realm, this would be viewed as less than altruistic, <br>Yet, though self-serving, it is also quite simplistic: <br>I believe our desires are mutually in accord, <br>And fear, in the face of same, is not something we can afford.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To accept this offer, you must overcome your fears<br>And embrace the ardor you have battled against, for years.<br>This is surely not a journey you need make on your own, <br>I shall be there too, where actions that comport with these words shall be shown, <br>To allay any fear, where now you are sure to be trepidatious; <br>Without fear as your nemesis, your heart is sure to be courageous, <br>As, surely, you will very much need it to be-<br>To leave the only life you have ever known, and cede it to me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Either way you choose to decide, I will not begrudge you, <br>As this letter should be taken only to inform, not to nudge you<br>In either direction-that is entirely up to you; <br>I would never deign to tell you what to do, <br>Only that I adore you, and shall, no matter your decision! <br>I have been wholly honest, and now, without contrition, <br>I beg of thee to be the same with thine own self, <br>As it art thou who must live with thine own decision, no one else! <br>I may not ask anything else of thee, nor would I-<br>Nor could I promise you forever, yet I could try-<br>One day at a time, to covet thee as much as I may, <br>Where my actions reinforce every loving word that I say! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take as much time as you may need, the decision must be right; <br>I know we may never be the same, thus the plight<br>That faces you is not lost upon me, nor for me, to decide.<br>All the counsel I may lend is: 'use you heart as your guide'.<br>As uttered ere, I will be here when your decision is done-<br>Whether or not my heart is chosen as the one<br>With which ou choose to ally, for what remains of forever-<br>Whether it begins now, or is banished to 'never'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">-MAurice Harris,21 September 2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Maurice+Harris">Maurice Harris</a><div class=q>
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