It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving caring human being.

And if you couldnt be loved the next best thing was to be let alone.

Dont try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.

when you lonely is the best time to pray to speak to the Lord and most important to listen to the Lord

Just five minutes God I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please please. Please.

You spoke to her in hidden dreams...and smiled at her through open doors. She felt your secret love surround her at times. And while alone she felt your breath heartbeat and more... Serenity of hers is never-ending soothing....it leads lures calls you... Ah timeless burning flame.. Her kiss is ocean salty water you drink and thirst increases...you long and pray for more...

Leave me alone in the long desert forever and I wont give up on my dreams.

There is no darkness when I go to sleep the wicked as they say never truly rest. I see blinding flashes of desperate arms reaching out I hear cries for help over the crackling of burning wood the ashen remains and the gut-wrenching smell of charred bodies.

I paid the taxi driver got out with my suitcase surveyed my surroundings and just as I was turning to ask the driver something or get back into the taxi and return forthwith to Chilln and then to Santiago it sped off without warning as if the somewhat ominous solitude of the place had unleashed atavistic fears in the drivers mind. For a moment I too was afraid. I must have been a sorry sight standing there helplessly with my suitcase from the seminary holding a copy of Farewells Anthology in one hand. Some birds flew out from behind a clump of trees. They seemed to be screaming the name of that forsaken village Querqun but they also seemed to be enquiring who quin quin quin. I said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was or what at the time I considered myself to be. Our Lady do not abandon your servant I murmured while the black birds about twenty-five centimetres in length cried quin quin quin. Our Lady of Lourdes do not abandon your poor priest I murmured while other birds about ten centimetres long brown in colour or brownish rather with white breasts called out but not as loudly quin quin quin Our Lady of Suffering Our Lady of Insight Our Lady of Poetry do not leave your devoted subject at the mercy of the elements I murmured while several tiny birds magenta black fuchsia yellow and blue in colour wailed quin quin quin at which point a cold wind sprang up suddenly chilling me to the bone.

I had a dream about you. We were comparing scars. All of yours were on your body while all of my scars were on the bodies of people Ive known throughout my life. Its true Im unscathed which is also why Im alone.