I would write you a masterpiece, something that would resonate within your soul and spark your fancy, that would at both times consume and elevate you. It would be an effervescent literary melody that would cease to exist as mere writing as you lay eyes upon it, and instead transform and shift into the algebraic expression of your life. And you would wonder at it, be drawn in by your curiosity, and be rewarded with a lifetime of expression within a few lines of grammar. You will remember and marvel at the possiblity of having found the defintion of yourself written by someone who does not know you, who does not understand the nuances of your life, who has not shared in your triumphs and victories, in your miseries and defeats, but who can still know you as thoroughly as a sibling with whom you have shared a life with.

And even though i do not know you, do not share in your experiences, rest assured that i love you. As deeply and eternaly as the furthest reaches of space can go, my affection for you goes further. You will give me your soul, and i will, in return, give you a broken heart. You will give me your body, and i will take you to the heights of passion, only to leave you cold, bitter and broken. And you will search for me, in places so deceptively obvious that you will cease to trust your mind. And then, you will never be safe.

But you will love my deception, you will be enticed and enthralled by it, you will write memoirs about the one who seduced and loved you, only to find yourself in the position you always feared you would be left in. And when you are left, you will wonder if i was real, if those feelings you harbored were tanglible-and the answer will be yes. Because i love you, and you will hate me. But you will love to hate me. You will be defined by it, and when you recognize that redefinition and that reconstitution of what you are..you will have realized that it is too late, you unlocked the door, let me in, i took what was worth taking, and you closed it behind me and waved goodbye.

Jorge Meneses