Beyond Presence

: Don't try in vain to discover exactly when this invisible communion between us began.

: Touching your soul awakened within me a fierce desire to remain awake; that very day I first became absorbed in conversation with myself—in your presence. I needed no external signs to feel your essence.

: I am truly overwhelmed by this special ability of yours.

: The longing to love the person within you intensely has brought my worldly existence to an end.

: Surely our paths are one. Then why do you consider yourself a failure? In this strong bond between us, you have never needed to try to hold me back. Where your attitude is passive, the question of failure doesn't even arise. Each time you have willingly let me go—and I remain in this unbroken communion even today, because your power of thought has profoundly influenced me.

: Do forms existing outside being bind their future destinations as tightly as we do?

: Are you simply following your own intuition? If not, tell me—what need is there for me?

: You should not doubt; I have complete faith in my own understanding. The question of temporarily distancing myself from you doesn't arise. I know that the expression of my helplessness has given birth to a different feeling within you.

: Compared to the intensity of your feelings, it is nothing. Though it may have prominence in my external being, it is completely absent from within me—surely this is not unknown to you.

: Have you ever heard the pulse of this unexpressed love I have for you? I am utterly incapable of expressing it outwardly.

: I have heard it many times. Countless times the plaintive entreaty of your sighs has shattered this part of my heart.

: Your being illuminates my entirety deeply. Though your arrival in my soul has repeatedly amazed me, still I desire its permanence.

: Certainly—it is because of your feelings that I am so complete today.