A Freestyle Piece: Thinking About Forever - 11/29/11

‎"Let's focus on the distance between now and then...rather than focus on avoiding how it ends. Time, and how it rends, is the subject of songs, poems, and such. It causes a pain so visceral that it can almost be touched. I've heard of literal broken hearts, women visibly worn down by emotional stress...unless you want that type of duress, love more, think less. The mind contrives an end to everything; that's just how logic works. But this? This love we've got? It's illogical, improbable, and supposed to be impossible. In an age of 'love and let go,' 'kiss and tell,' 'hit and quit,' and 'put an angel through hell,' we're avoiding labels and the statistics shown on tables. This is love in the raw...the kind of heart-enthralling feeling that wakes you up, puts you to sleep, shallows your connections to the insignificant, and tethers you to the deep. Forever is the only place for this kind of love. Time and space are the only capacities endless enough for this limitless love...when we're dead and gone, our love will echo through the cosmos, vibrating in the hearts of those as passionate as we, reverberating in the connections between lovers as fortunate us. See, I've been thinking about forever: your existence quantifies it for me."

-A. Lewis