Creative Writing

Dear Alice

It has been 2 weeks and 5 days since my family business has trapped me and separated us apart. I am soulless, a plane without a compass, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I am completely lost without you. You are my one and only true north.

Last night, you came into my dream, walking in beauty like the night with that smile that always held me like a lover, cared me like a child. All I remember from the dream is a feeling of peace.

Do you recall our time on Tjilatjap, celebrating my twenty-ninth birthday? The time we kissed, and I reached you and take you in my arms. The beauty shining on your face had held my breath. I long for this moment more than any other. It is what I live for, and when you come into my embrace, for the first time in a long time I felt sparkles between each connection we made. Is it always that way, I wonder, when two people are in love?

I am twenty-nine year old now. My hands are hard and your skin is still soft, and I wondered if you'll pull back. I would watch you and know in my heart that we'd be together forever. We are destined to be together. Is it possible that you know the feeling I have? I wish you do share the same feeling as I do. I knew what the others in the town were saying about me, acting like a hot-headed teenage boy crazy in love with you. But it’s a pleasure for me to be your knight and I don’t care what they were thinking. Before we came together, I moved through life without meaning, without reason. It was times like those that I understood the meaning of true happiness.

I think of you, I dream of you. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. I will fly back to Broome next Wednesday, and I hope your father would allow me to take you and your brother, Hartley to stay in Hartog Downs for a month. I am despaired to be on your side.

Your love Carl Venning

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