Dear _________ ,
I am leaving in four days. My mind is a stew of angst, mania, and everything. I find it a privilege to have known you and to have come to know myself through you. I am sorry for insisting on being such the romantic and spoiling tomorrow. You played the role of the muse flawlessly and the role of a friend even more so. I came to know you only due to our age of meta-modernism - and I still find that irregularly beautiful. Perhaps souls aren’t meant to live vicariously.
I feel so compassionate and ferocious towards you. Not because I believe you to have been the cause of my woe, but because I believe you to be foolish sometimes. Although, I guess that’s what I should expect of a cynic; I should love you for that. Is it horrible for me to hate it so much? I will confess I can sympathize with you in having wanted to invest yourself into a love that is impossible. I must also confess I am personally overjoyed that he “broke-up” with you. I often thought your excuses and routes of choice in the matter to be grossly immature (“I’m just a girl”). It made me misogynistic for a while. I’m over that.
Notwithstanding any of this, like you, I only require your friendship - it seemed that you often thought otherwise. I drove to visit you at Guilford with hopes I could be enough of a man to convince you of that. I am certain I failed. I suspect that you won’t read this and I will admit to failure again. I should probably just blame that on my cowardice. You might even find the means via which I expose this to be ostentatious, but I’ll claim it regardless. I always dreamt of writing you while at the manor and I would still love to.
I cherish you terribly.
Tonight I saw the harvest moon,
Joshua
Posted 5 months ago with 5 notesYou’re quite possibly...one who could put into words, my feelings for someone