A Letter to Love

Dear Love,

It's been awhile since I last wrote to you; I guess I must have too busy lately, or recent life. I hope all is well in you, and all that be in peace.

Years have gone and time has passed, yet there I am still standing all along walking this Earth. Life has never been better without challenges, obstacles and hardship - it can be cruel at times, yet in the very end is where I find triumph or failure - lesson to be learn perhaps.

I must say, in what I have deep within the heart felt extraordinary exceptional. Perhaps to you, Love, I shall describe that at this very moment it feels pain, sorrow and then hollow. Surprisingly weird isn't it? As you may wonder, because to Love it is emotionally happy and filled with affection.

But deep within me, I have the affection which I have kept all the while. I tried to give it away, but it has not been accepted yet - it has been rejected instead. I do try to understand what could have gone wrong in this affection, caring, emotion and faith to such an important role of having to be accepted.

It angers me deep within, especially when the question of sincerity and honesty are the rise of the sun. But yet, promises made mean nothing more then just emptiness - so empty that it hurts from within. Is this how reality bites?

Love, I often thought respect is such an important way of life - we wish to be treated nicely, yet we shall treat others nicely too in return - as that's what it is all that goes in nature. Then again, it seems like a favor of return with expectations. Expectations of course when sincerity is given and shall be rewarded handsomely with integrity. Yet it has all been not that we all thought off...which leaves me in silence and exiled.

In an exile of silence; I was once expressive, loving and caring that I have shown towards the ones I adore. But it has all changed now, I no longer share these words and they are well kept deep within me. It is saddening isn't it? When such words have been rejected, not accepted and taken for granted in the end. I, somehow, have learn to keep and hide them well.

It is a misery, a misery that unfolds the dark-side of selfishness. But then again, in me there comes forgiveness. It is in hopeful that forgiveness for a new beginning, and leave the past a history of its own. Yet, forgiveness has led to be taken for granted.

For as long as my patience lives, my Love. I am surely I will still be faithful to this moment, the moment of love. It does harden this emotion, yet it doesn't harden the heart within. I may stay or may leave, but I know when the time comes...there will be time to make destiny a worthy journey.

The clock ticks and the sun waits for no man, I must say I am slowly learning to let go and walking away into the deep.

Love, perhaps I shall find you again in a time of its own. May you find my peace and thoughts for I will continue the legacy you have given.

In love I say, harmony and peace of fate.

Your Love,

Jacques Yvez

Rainy Days

Days have been rainy, cloudy and breezy. I must say it is one of those days that I always feel my life has been lifted up. This weather is just a nature that fills our lives with adventure, and certainly not to mention the fact that it touches our emotion...and literally transform our live.

Have you ever thought of how wonderful it is to be dripped upon by the rain? Take a minute to feel it; close your eyes, breathe slowly and gently, feel that air moving around your cheeks, it feels cold and light, and slowly a droplet of rain landed on the tip of your nose...it feels cold, and just water?

Doesn't that tell you how simple it is? You must thinking it is just rain and water, and certainly what is the big deal about it. To me, personally, it is just more that a droplet of rain, or water that falls from the sky. What it matters here is how it touches my soul and life.

I always feel energetic during rainy day, I love it, and I can't help the fact that it makes me feel so alive and full of pleasure. It is just so wonderful! Water, the main source of all lives, that grows all living things and washes away anything that comes in its way. Isn't water is beautiful? You're still puzzle, I know.

Water is pure, plain, simple and refreshing. We use water for our needs, everyday and every time. When we are dirty or feeling hot, we take a bath. When we're thirsty, we take a drink. And, when we are sinned, it washes away. Water, the simplicity of all that walks in this world, yet it is the peace of element that lies in us.

During a rainy day I, sometimes, would stand underneath it, and spread my arms welcoming million of droplets of rain onto me. It feels like I am accepting nature into my body, and let it be part of me. It makes me feel so wonderful that the rain washes away everything in me, and takes me to a new beginning. Every single little droplet lies onto me and slowly go right downward out of my body; it takes my past away with it, it takes all the sadness and sorrow away, and it cleans all the sins I have where it makes me feel brand new - a whole new person that feels wonderful knowing that I have lived another day to see another.

Life comes in very interesting ways; certain time up and down, as the cycle of life represents it all in our own reflection of our living cycle. When our lives are up, we cherish it with happiness, smile, laughter and joy, then it tosses with a drink of gratitude. Yet, when we are down we overcome our sorrow with tears in sadness, and drinks that make us to forget the pain in hope of joy. Hence, with a simple touch of water it takes our soul to a brand new beginning of every chapter in life.

And, there are times that we feel so lost; totally lost of direction, and life feels like it is filled with darkness. It feels lonely that we don't know where to turn and what we're doing - total lost of sense of life. It feels just like a lost voyage that is hopeless in search of no man's land, not knowing what its destiny is. Yet, a voyage that floats on water, and when storm comes it is covered with rain of water that shower over it.

Isn't it obvious that life is sometimes directed? Yet, we are just too blinded by ourselves to see what is good and bad around us. The ocean is huge and beneath it there is a current; an ocean current it is that circulates the life of the ocean. And yet, this is a guided key by nature itself where as a ship floats on it can be flowed into its ocean current direction naturally.

Sometimes, we just gotta stop and take a moment to think what we are doing. Stop thinking whether it is right or wrong, and what or how it can be resolved. We just need a moment of silence, feel that nature surrounding us, take time to feel it because it is right there to take you into a direction that is unseen, yet can be felt. Let your life flows like a river of water, because eventually water will find its way through the river into the ocean - an ocean of freedom and love.

Life and rain have their sharing of common representation - where it hits us in our life - yet we avoid it to think that it is part of us, because we're blinded by selfishness and desire. Life is simple and certainly blessed with joy and love - yet it is just another step to be taken by accepting what is within us. Let that rains come onto you, it does no harm for it is nature that is reaching our souls. Have no fear in life, let it comes as it is because tomorrow is a mystery - a mystery to be lived and rediscovered - and rainy days just couldn't get any better in fulfilling the wonders of life.

By Jacques Yvez