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Love Letter

February 2, 2011
By IamtheWallpaper BRONZE, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
IamtheWallpaper BRONZE, North Kingstown, Rhode Island
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Favorite Quote:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
"And the time came when the risk it took to stay closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to bloom."


I hope you will not mind it if I write you a love letter.
Just watching you sleep there, unencumbered for once,
free of all the burdens the world has thrust upon your shoulders,
it made me love you.
And as out of necessity I must never reveal how much, do not begrudge this letter
full of feelings I can not name,
that enveloped me
When you blinked drowsily
I knew I wanted to encase the soft character of your eyes in shining golden strands.
You wouldn't mind would you?
You, who have always graciously ignored the slips of tongue and forgiven the lights shining from my eyes. You have been so kind, if only because you see all of my ghosts save one.

I always did do love poems best of all- they preserve the moments that are secret and fleeting
For when you rubbed the last vestiges of sleep from your eyes,
I knew the moment had passed, and it was time to draw this letter to a close.

The author's comments:
Unrequited love: the breakfast of poets everywhere.

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