A Lost Love Letter

As we strolled around for one of our weekly evening walks at the beach, we stumbled upon a lost love letter. Those two roses laid there in loneliness. I couldn't be sure if they were patiently waiting for their owner to find them in a frenzy of enamored love or if they were the cast-offs of a love gone sour (hence the "I miss you with all my heart and soul" bit). Even if the romantic gesture claimed the reject title, the note resonated with me... "I love you with all my heart + soul." I couldn't describe my love for my two boys more simply!

This lost love letter brought a poem to mind, which I discovered on one of my daily reads. It is one of those poems which is a perfectly articulated expression of those moments that make your heart beat with acceleration, leaving you in that transcendent place where you feel ultimately connected and alive...

What if all we are

is the combination

of what we have seen

and all our hands

have ever closed upon?

We are the ticket stubs

and lucky coins,

the falling stars

and the sound

a voice makes

as its song comes

to a haunting close

in a crowded hall.

The weathered rocks

in dark pockets and

the torn fragments

of our favorite books.

We are the pieces

of all we have ever found

glued tight inside us,

shining out.

--Tyler Knott Gregson