To Rachel
My love…thinking of you fills my heart with such joy! Such reckless, abundant happiness! How blessed I am, to love such an angel as you! So eternally favored by fate, to bask in the radiance of your sweet affections. Great poets have sung in praise of beauty unmeasured, and of wild untamed passions, but all these bright things are drab when compared to you. Your smile shines so brightly, that I am blinded and cannot see the clouds on the horizon or the mistakes which lay behind me. All my thoughts are scattered and diminished in my awe and I am left speechless……..the only words my dumbstruck mouth can utter, “I love you.”
