A Letter to my Muse

I thought of you today. I walked outside my door, and as I stood in my front yard, I felt the warmth of the sun kissing my skin. Immediately I thought it would be a perfect day to peacefully lounge in beautiful surroundings and escape to a place otherworldly. That’s when I thought of you.

You and I have a dynamic connection that has grown and cultivated slowly and grows ever steady like the mighty oak.

With you, I feel a spiritual connection: the need and desire to help others, to try to achieve a sense of purity in life and who I am, but also an acknowledgment of a darker side—a side that is nefarious and pushes the limits of our priggish society. Few people can simultaneously draw those conflicting sides out of me, and yet make me feel the delicious temptation of the unification of such opposites. You see the most surreptitious side of me—that side society deems uncivilized. I thank you. Although this contradiction has always existed in me, being dictated by societal norms, I have suppressed it. However, you have allowed me to feel free and enlightened. You have taken from me everything I have hidden behind, leaving me completely naked, and as a result, I have been forced to look at myself. How can one know purity without knowing perversion? True ecstasy is the recognition of the two forces and the joining of the two into a rhythmic and harmonious existence.

This exquisite connection that we share has been my muse. I have found the embers of my passions, my sensuality, and my creativity rekindled. What we share is pristine. Not because it is entirely good, but because it acknowledges the dark as well as the light, and that identification alone indicates honesty, and honesty is always pure. Every day I am near you our my thoughts shift to you, I am revisited by the muses, and nothing could be more beautiful.

This understanding of each other is itself spiritual. Though we each maintain a certain mystery about each of us, we have a sacred connection that is empathetic, yet still seeking exploration.

I am both blessed and enchanted by this relationship we share.