MY BEAUTIFUL LOVE
My beautiful love as yet unknown
you are living and breathing
somewhere far away or perhaps quite close to me,
but still I know nothing
of the threads that form the fabric of your life
or the pattern which makes your face distinctive.
My beautiful love as yet unknown
I would like you to think of me tonight
as I am thinking of you --
not in a golden dream that is far from my real self,
but as i really am, a living person that cannot be invented without distorting the truth.
My beautiful love as yet unknown
I love you already although your face is hidden.
If I can make myself richer now
will be able to enrich you
and I want to learn how to give rather than always to take.
When you enter my life and I recognise you,
I do not want to take you like a thief.
I want to receive you like a treasure
and let you give yourself to me.
My beautiful love as yet unknown.
I want to pray for you tonight
because you already exist,
because I already want to be faithful to you
and because you are already having difficulties
and possibly because of me.
I am preparing myself for you
and you are preparing yourself for me.
I hope with all my heart
that in the future I will be your sun
and you will be my ocean,
that I will warm you in my rays
and you will wash me in your water.
Our bodies will be grafted together
and we will give to the world
what it needs most of all -
the strength of our love that it would lack without us.
My beautiful love as yet unknown
we have to wait for one another now.
We know how painful it is for lovers
who do not know each other's face
to go on waiting for each other!
But we also know that, although we are still apart,
out two lives are looking and calling for each other.
And I am also sure that, in the darknessof our longing,
God's longing and his Light are present.
Our Father who is in heaven
is looking at us, my love, and loving us.
And He is saying now
as He has been saying for all eternity:
"If that is what they really want, they will be one in the future."
That is His dream as our Father
and that will be our decision as His children>
