Near Distances — Hypocrisy...

If one day I say to you, "I never loved you," do not believe it: it is my pride that speaks, not I.

If I tell you of my hatred for you, do not credit what I say: for one who has become near will never again be a stranger.

If you ask me about life, I will answer you that it is a waiting for the truth of a heart that opens our eyes to the light, and that all the rest of it is an echo of that rapture.

And this rapture is not bound by time: it may come in a single moment, in which it seems to us that time has dozed off and slept.

And it does not depend on prior experience: for just as the waves toy with the one who plays with them skillfully, so did I drown in it.

One thing believe, if I say it to you one day: "You do not know love so long as you are rancorous and unforgiving..."