Is it wrong to love someone because you don't possess him?
Is love about possessing someone?
Can we not love a sunset and its freedom and wish to kiss it and hold it close?
I love you today. And I cannot stop myself because I belong to someone else. My soul remembers the warmth you gave me and it still dreams about you. I had a dream that you proposed marriage to me and till the end of the dream I was indifferent to the thought. My mind is trying to cope with my love for you. I don't want to possess you. I was never in love with your body because I have not even seen it. The faded memories hardly help solidify anything physical.
I love your being. The construct called you that fitted so well into my world. There was not a single jarring note when you entered my world. You flowed smoothly into every nook and cranny and filled me up. I have cried many a night for you back then and even now. I don't know if you knew. I sometimes think I let you go so easily but what could I do? I was immature. I also never imagined it would end. I was too caught up in the fantasy to remember that it could end. End it did. And how!
You decided to leave many things unsaid. Many things untouched and undone. Maybe you lived very much in the real world while pretending to appreciate my world. But mine was not a facade. It was me. And the only person who knew me was you.
Why you matter so much I don't know. And will I be able to reconstruct everything the way it was? I don't think so. Why am I stuck in an era? I am not sure. Maybe it's my obsession with perfection. You are perfect. That's why!
You know what? I think nobody will ever have the patience or persistence to get to know you the way I did. And I consider myself lucky. You throw pieces of you around for everyone to grab but nobody delved in you like I did. You are my passion and you make me what I am. You have restructured every aspect of my mental and emotional behavior. You have etched my psyche with so many things that would never go away till I die.
You are my Aleph and my Zahir. You are what I know as love and there is no love outside of it. There is no definition of love outside of you and no guilt or blame or regret outside of you. You are me and I am you. There is no division. Nothing to distort the identity and split it from ours. We belong inside of us and don't exist outside of us. And we cannot feel pain this way. There is no feeling of loss in this completeness. There is only silence and a world of it.