benj

She so bad…

“ It is with a weight, at once wearying and withering, upon my spirit, and with a patience long pressed and now all but perished, that I find myself obliged to confess that your presence, persistent and perturbing, provokes within me a distaste so deep and so abiding that I cannot, in any measure, endure it any longer, lest it awaken an agitation so profound as to unsettle the very foundations of my dignity. “

‘ Rock of Substances ‘

“ It is with a melancholy too profound for concealment that I confess how entirely you have supplanted every former ambition of my life; and though I would surrender the quiet composure of peace, the fair repute of the world, and the fragile consolations of reason, could I but dwell for one hour within the quietude of your presence, yet am I haunted by the consciousness that the repose of my spirit lies surrendered to your image, and that, as the evening lengthens and silence gathers, I bow, l linger, I despair, content that love should be at once my ruin and my redemption. “

i AM A HUMAN BEING