To whomsoever it may concern

Dearest,

Look not at what you see. But try and look at what I’m hiding from you. Most people don’t look hard enough. But then I was hoping that you will be different. The artist sees all doesn’t he? God is an artist. He’s the master who created the mortals that you call masters. He created me from his imagination. How much more beauty can you want? Don’t look at the smile that I show you. Instead take the time to trace the ghost of the tears that ran down my face. Find some beauty in this crooked face. For what is a face but shapes held together by a nose? Experience and lessons held together by your eyes. Joy and sadness harnessed together by a single mouth. Treat them not with your eyes, but with that feeling you get when you close your eyes.

Don’t look at what I take the trouble to show to you. Instead look to find the past that I can so easily hide. You don’t have to heal the wounds. You should just see the wounds that I beg you not to make again. I don’t know if I have a soul, help me find mine, and when you do don’t claim it as your own…why claim something that is already yours?

See beyond the body. Don’t reduce me to mere sweat and dung. There is a spirit that soars above my body. That is who I am. Respect me as I do you. Don’t take my vulnerability as my weakness, take it to mean that I trust you with my raw self uncluttered by the world. You don’t have to feel pity; I will never feel sorry for you. You just have to look at me with all my wounds, my weakness, my secrets and still see beyond all this.

This is all I am. No glory. Just a struggling spirit in this world. I have been given your wing and you have been given mine. If you run away with my wing remember your running away from yours too.

But for all this, you have to let go of worldly definition of everything. Don’t define yourself by the words the world gives you. I have no words to define you. In my mind and in my soul you are a feeling…you are a state of consciousness. You’re real and unreal at the same time. You’re infinity and now all in one moment. You begin where I end and I begin where you end. I am you and you are me…. For eternity…

And for all this all you need to do is …

Look not at what you see.

Yours always...