Re: Mina M/Victor F
When I was a girl and knew no better, I wanted nothing in life but to wed a man with a mustache and wonderful feet for dancing. I pictured a life filled with balls, and myself at the center, and I thought it was the most perfect happiness that could be befall me. I would not make the mistake of my mother, and my marriage would be truly blissful. How silly I was.
I do not suffer from claustrophobia in social gatherings, but my blinders are gone, and the sleep is brushed from my eyes. The beautiful people there, they say nothing. It is emptiness that falls from their lips, and they are content to ask no questions of life. I was guilty of that sin once, and now I am cast into that life once more and I find it unspeakably dull.
I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
It reminds me of my youth. Have you ever loved someone more than love, Victor? As you've given me leave to use your given name, improper as it might be.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we- Of many far wiser than we- And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.
I do not believe in that love any longer, but I did once, before I understood what the words truly meant.
Would you tell me of your childhood, if your fingers be so resilient?