The love letter apart from being an affermation of the author's love for the intended recipient. also becomes sorrowful, it has to otherwise it is false... Levi Strauss the father of anthropology talks about meaning being constructed form created opposits. The opposite of love being sorrow, a feeling of loss.
So for the love letter to be truthful it needs to explores both sensations. The golding light of her presance as well as the darkest cloudy night of her absence. On the simplest level the letter needs to not only venerate her virtues, but also explores her absence or her loss...
Someone once said that the man that has ceased to fear has ceased to care...
this creates a strong link between caring(loving) and fear... the fear of loss... I guess. Some might say that if there is a relationship there is nothing to fear but for me it is the fear of loss that makes one work just that little bit harder to keep the relationship alive...
And what if she is already lost? (as in my case) Does the writing of the love letter becomes a way of remembering of congering up her face again? Or as in the old Afrikan tale throwing the coals into the air so she can find her way back into the arms from which she fled... my arms. Or does my love letters become 'a prayer, a petition, a handful of hopeful words'... Again playing on both joy and sorrow...
In both cases i guess the love letter needs to draw on both love and sorrow - writing to the lover that is present, the letter declares the authors love to the intended and fears the sorrow of (her) loss. In the letter to the lost love the author sorrowfully talks about his loss and with love the author speculates on the return of the lost love...
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