a castaway

"I want to lie upon your heart like a castaway on an island... Listening to the beating of your heart like waves washing to shore..."

The River

"I want to make love everyday...

to gaze into your eyes of deep

mountain river water,

and tell you I adore you..."

-L.

a thousand kisses deep

Don't matter if the road is long
Don't matter if it's steep
Don't matter if the moon is gone
And the darkness is complete
Don't matter if we lose our way
It's written that we'll meet
At least, that's what I heard you say
A thousand kisses deep


I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see, I'm just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep...

-Leonard Cohen

The Songs of Eden

"It is my last wish that you burn the three hundred sixty-five letters, one by one by one. Do not fear that you are burning my heart down. When I first wrote the letters, I believed they would be what remained of me after death. Now I see that what will survive of me is not my letters to you; what will survive of me is my love for you. What matters is not what is written on the page. What matters is what is written on the heart.

So burn the letters and lay their ashes on the snow at the river's edge. When spring comes and the snow melts and the river rises, return to the banks of the river and reread my letters with eyes closed; let the words and the images wash over your body like waves. Reread the letters with your hand cupped over your ear; listen to the songs of Eden. Page after page after page, fly the bird path.  And maybe, maybe, you will feel something like my love for you."

-Gregory Colbert, Ashes and Snow