A long, long time ago, I was engaged to a sweet girl.
She lived far, far away. Almost daily, we exchanged love letters "the old fashioned way." The letters were written with pen and ink, carefully folded, and placed in sealed envelopes.
What Goes Into A Love Letter? (source)
During the last century,
this experience was common to all. Upon receiving a paper letter from our beloved, we would open it carefully, preserving the stamp and the postmark, and (after re-reading it enough times to extract the last iota of sentiment), we would store it away in some secret hiding place to be treasured long into the future.
Love-Letter-Writing Tool (source)
What have we come to?
Now, we text one another "selfies," tweet our feelings, and zip emails to and fro around the globe. No matter how passionate, now our words are ultimately erased from hard drives, shredded on floppy disks, tossed in the trash, and abandoned with last year's computer. The bits all return to the chaos from which they came.
Love Letter and Settee (source)
This haiku is a mournful reflection on these changes.
What Has Become of 💌The Love Letter?💌
A Plaintive Haiku
Once, cherished bundles.
Now, mislaid in cyberspace,
never seen again.
Love may still make the world go 'round, but the dusty, perfume-scented paper record of it, the "love letter," is no more.
Love letter, R.I.P.
Words From The Heart, Preserved On Paper (source)
*FIN*
