COMPOSITE LOVER: YOU COULD BE JOHN, DAVID, LARRY, BENNY, MEINARD, AND COUNTLESS OTHERS. SNATCHED, STOLEN, SNUCK, WRESTLED AWAY PRECIOUS MOMENTS OF FLEETING JOY; SOME OF YOU INTUITED THE PHYSCOLOGICAL KEYS TO MY HOARDED HORRORS, THERE IN CREATING ME SOME KIND OF ESCAPE FROM EVER LURKING SHAME, SORROW, DESPAIR. EACH IN YOUR OWN WAY STILL RESONATES HIS FIERCE APPROACH OF SHARING LOVE. YOU CAN DAMN WELL DIE KNOWING I FELT IT. SOME OF YOU BURNED ME PRETTY DAMN GOOD, SOME OF YOU I BURNED WORSE. I'M SURE SOME OF YOU REMEMBER ME AS A SUGAR-COATED PILL. SWEET IF YOU DIDN'T LET ME LINGER ON YOUR TOUNGE. BITTER IF YOU WAITED TOO LONG. WELL NOT ALL THE TIME SPENT WAS WRONG, LESSONS SELDOM ARE. WHAT I LEARNED OF MYSELF IS I STILL LOVE THE BEST MEMORIES WE ALL MADE. IN A PERFECT WORLD THESE MEMORIES MIGHT NEVER BE MADE, THE PROCESS OF ELIMINATION WOULD NEVER EXSIST. I WOULDN'T LONG FOR A COMPOSITE LOVER EACH OF YOUR BEST. IF I'D NEVER LOVED YOU EVER I'D NEVER KNOW WHAT I MISSED, CERTAINLY THAT IS WHAT HEAVEN IS FOR; WHERE YOU NO LONGER LONG OR WISH EVERMORE. THANK YOU GOD FOR OUR IMPERFECT WORLD, FOR PREFECT IS BORING, FOR AS LONG AS WE REMAIN MERELY MORTAL. LEXI HILIFE 2003
Reason for writing:
BECAUSE I LOVED THESE PEOPLE,ONE IS STILL HERE,AND KNOWS I'M STILL LONG-TIME FRIENDS WITH SOME OF THE OTHERS AND WE DROP EACH OTHER A HELLO FROM TIME TO TIME,& SADLY SOME ARE GONE FOREVER. BUT WILL BE REMEMBERED AS LONG AS I LIVE.
Birth sign: Leo
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