. ✧ ┆ ‘ * JERICHO.

                                                                  LOVED BY LETTIE.

                                                                  LOVED BY LETTIE.

❝ And now here is my secret, a very simple secret, ❞ ❝ I don’t even remember who you are, ❞ ❝ It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ❞ ❝ In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. ❞ ❝ You’re going to make a wonderful grownup. ❞ ❝ What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well, ❞ ❝ I am looking for friends. ❞ ❝ But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. ❞ ❝ You - only you - will have stars that can laugh. ❞ ❝ It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears. ❞ ❝ Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. ❞ ❝ You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. ❞ ❝ You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad. ❞ ❝ If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. ❞ ❝ And when your sorrow is comforted you will be content that you have known me. ❞ ❝ You will always be my friend. ❞ ❝ But all these stars are silent. ❞ ❝ I ought never to have run away from her. ❞ ❝ But I was too young to know how to love her. ❞ ❝ One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. ❞ ❝ I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. ❞ ❝ I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them. ❞ ❝ I am who I am and I have the need to be. ❞ ❝ To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend. ❞ ❝ I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand. ❞ ❝ Words are the source of misunderstandings ❞ ❝ But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. ❞  ❝ I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again. ❞ ❝ If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself ‘My flower’s up there somewhere…’ But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it’s as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn’t important? ❞ ❝ Conceited people never hear anything but praise. ❞ ❝ I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams. ❞ ❝ Of course, I love you, if you were not aware of it, it was my fault. ❞

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~@yjh

in this endless night, i have only one wish 🌠

wishing and waiting and dreaming of reunion 

Guillaume Apollinaire, from “Mirabeau Bridge,” Alcools (Doubleday, 1965)