“I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no recjection
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me.
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain.
I chose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips.
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams you have no end.”
-Rumi