To my Immortal Beloved,

My angel, my all, my very self.

Why this deep sorrow when necessity speaks, can our love endure except through sacrifices, through not demanding everything from one another? can you change the fact that you are not wholly mine, I not wholly thine?

My heart is full of so many things to say to you, ahhh, there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all... but cheer up, remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours.

Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us. I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I am in your arms and say that I am really at home with you.

Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest. Oh, continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

Ever thine, ever mine; ever ours.

Your faithful.