A second imaginary love letter has reached me, my lovers, a few weeks after I imagined the first. In it, my mystery correspondent expands on his original theme:
Working at my desk, head bowed and computer woring away, I hear the same soft thud on the hall mat. I get up and see it is the same cream paper, the same black inked penmanship. It’s him. It is, surely, him. Quickly I open the door and look out, but there is no one about. I shut the door again and go to my desk.
Not letting myself react too much, I slice open the envelop and again, receive the same burst of sandalwood scent as last time. Oh, yes, it must be him!
I draw out the inscribed pages. He has written to me again. With a pulse that quickens, I start to read;
My dearest lady,
I, foolish dreamer that I am have been so bold as to hope, and in that boldness to see my hope made real. For I have been lucky enough to see you, beautiful lady, wearing your sapphire hair pin for several days in a row, and am thereby made hopeful enough, foolish enough, to make my words reach out to you again.
How can I describe to you the wonder of believing you might, some day, be mine? How can I convey to you the sheer majesty of the peak you represent? I, mere mortal, can only look upon the wonder that you are and dream. No, not dream, for a dream is a fickle thing, gone as soon as one awakes and is no more. Instead, I aspire. I aspire to you, to the fact of you. I aspire to behold your beauty, your nobility, your majesty. I aspire to your example, your wisdom and to your skill. I aspire to your accomplishments, to your tenacity, and to your capabilities.
And at night, when the wind blows about as it has for the last few days, I think of you in the darkness where you are unseen and unnoticed, and wonder at the foolishness of this world. Humanity seeks to spin and learn and grow, yet none of them has the wit to aspire to be the one that might see you. To see you, and to notice you, to let the moonlight light the paleness of your perfection and to let you be adored. You are the dream that foolish men would dream of, when they find something they cannot have. You are the wonder that wise men would think of, when they find something they do not understand. And I, I my lady, may only cast my petals at your feet, and be glad I may go so far as that.
I remain most passionately yours,
Your eternal admirer.
He worships, rather than loves, don’t you think? Putting me on a pedestal no mere woman could reach. Still… as I fold my second epistle from him, noting all the tiny details of it, I am moved and wondering by his letter. I hope so very much that he sends me another….