25th January 2001
Without is...

To not:

touch
feel
taste
smell

thee,

But to not:

hear - a laugh, a song,
see - a smile
think - along with
speak - aloud, thine mind, and mine
be - aware, of; alert, to
laugh - alongside, and
say - to you what I want to say, to you, eye to eye, I to you; palm to palm, hand to heart

mean so much more, somehow.
And the without, within, withers not, but endures.

So raise thine sword, and turn the page,
for all the world is but a stage,
and all the wars we daily wage,
are won with love, and not with rage.

 

---sincerly yours,
hook, line and sinker
GeistHund