My Beloved One,
The memory of your beauty sails the lonely watery wastes with me – and I am alone no more…
I see your radiant face in my mind's eye, and rough and raging seas grow calm. Your hair is a storm at midnight, your eyes black pearls from the ocean deeps, your voice an angel's song in the wind…
Beloved, the loneliness in my heart is the loneliness of the single ship adrift on the endless ocean. I wait, suspended in the silence of a windless sea. I pray for the wind to rise, to carry my lonely ship homewards on the foaming waves. You are my true north, my only compass point.
Beloved, I am bound to you, for now, for all eternity. I can chart no other course, but homeward to your arms. I must return to you as surely as the sea birds flying with my ship return every season to the distant land.
Your loving arms are my harbour, my shore and my anchor in a storm-tossed world. I fly to you as truly as an arrow flies into the sun, to be lost in the brilliance of your smile, the warmth of your greeting.
I would die for you, Beloved. I would willingly sink to the bottom of the sea if that must be my fate. I would do so if it spared you one moment of pain, one moment of regret. I cannot bear to see you cry.
But I would rather live for you, dance with you, love with you. You are my beginning and my end. There is no other path I may tread, that does not always lead me back to you.
You have shot down my masts, torn my sails, and spiked my guns. You have taken me as your prize. I surrender myself gladly, asking no other quarter, nor favour, than to be with you. In this life and the next, your hand clasped eternally in mine.
Always, my Beloved, always…
Yours for now and forever
Daniel