Letter to my body

Dear body,

We haven’t talked in a while and I miss you. What a strange feeling it gives me to start a conversation with you again, as if you were an old friend who I haven’t visited in a long time. As if I long for your contact and want to see you hastily through these lines.

Life goes by so fast that I don’t have time to be with you consciously.. I know that you are there, that I owe you every movement and every thought and, still, sometimes I feel distant from you, as if my mind worked alone, as if there was no physical body supporting it.

I don’t blame you for it, but I do, because we are one. It is I, and therefore you, who is responsible for turning a deaf ear when you agitatedly shout my name. We are the ones who don’t stop until we reach the limit to look at each other again.

Although sometimes alien, I feel you

But don’t think that I don’t hear you, that those screams don’t reach my ears, because it’s not true. I hear you and feel you but sometimes I ignore you. Don’t blame me for it, I know you’ve done the same to me many times. We both know the frustration of speaking without being attended to.

Your messages, which range from the subtle to the grotesque, capture my attention when I want them to be attended to. Even if you set the pace for me, I will be the one who has the last word to decide the right time and place for us to be together..

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I know that distresses you. I know you want more and, even if you try to fool me by saying otherwise, I want it too. I long for the moment to be alone with you but, in this relationship, one of us has to set the limits.

There is a time and a place for you

Don’t despair, although sometimes we are difficult to understand, we are nothing without each other. and only together we can reach the top. Do not abandon me on the road because without me, you remain empty and, without you, I remain inert. It is difficult to make an appointment, the agenda is tight but you, with infinite patience, wait by my side for the hand of the clock to leave, between its tick and tock, a space for your voice to resonate.

Although it is complicated, the moment ends up arriving. We look for it, like someone looking for a pin in a haystack and after hard work they end up finding it. Enjoying the moment, knowing that the time has come for the pin to return to its place, where it belongs, and not get lost in a pile of straw.

If you look at me I’ll look at you

And when the time comes, and we are finally alone, that’s when we start to be ourselves. You take off your clothes and are exposed while I remove the thoughts that cover my head hour after hour. It’s just you and me. Naked and without screens that interrupt communication. If you talk to me I will answer you. If you look at me, I’ll look at you. I finally feel you in all your splendor.

From the soft touch of your neck to the tickles on your calf that disturb a calm sea. There is no part of you that now wants to lose me and even the most insignificant corner seems worth exploring, as if it were the first time.

When we are together we are great

As the eruption is to the volcano, you are to my life. First, calm down, let everything seem calm. We have time to stop in each valley we find and enjoy together what our senses offer us.

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The noises and the rise in temperature will tell us that there is activity, that the volcano is alive and that the apparent calm was just a mirage. The heat and the increasingly urgent movement of the earth warn us of the imminent arrival of the explosion that will turn the rock into lava.

Because when we talk, we understand each other and, when this happens, the result is almost magical. Like the image of a body and mind in fullness, like the scene of an erupting volcano. And when we are together we are great and we can achieve what each one of us was not capable of achieving separately.

Dear body, the pleasure has been mine

Dear body, I can’t promise you that I will write to you more often, or even that I will stop ignoring you. We will continue to get lost in the I want and I can’t, in the I can but today I don’t feel like it.

But the time will come when we will look at each other and listen to each other again.. Perhaps, after these words, it will happen sooner rather than later and, without realizing it, we will once again be united under the same consciousness.

You don’t need to thank me for these lines, the pleasure has been mine.