[a love beyond time]

we try, we struggle, all the time to find words to express our love. the quality, the quantity, certain that no two people have experienced it before in the history of creation. perhaps catherine and heathcliff, perhaps romeo and juliet, maybe tristan and isolde, maybe hero and leander, but these are just characters, make-believe. we have known each other forever, since before conception even. we remember playing in a playpen, crossing paths at F.A.O. schwarz. we remember meeting in front of the holy temple in the days before christ, we remember greeting each other at the forum, at the parthenon, on passing ships as christopher columbus sailed to america. we have survived a pogrom together, we have died in dachau together, we have been lynched by the ku klux klan together. there has been cancer, polio, the bubonic plague, consumption, morphine addiction. we have had children together, we have been children together, we were in the womb together. our history is so deep and wide and long, we have known each other a million years. and we don't know how to express this kind of love, this kind of feeling.

May 28, 2004 - 2:47 am