All Love Letters
All love letters
Are ridiculous.
They wouldn’t be love letters if they weren’t
Ridiculous.
I too have written, in my time, love letters—
And they were, like everyone else’s,
Ridiculous.
Love letters, if you’re in love,
Must be
Ridiculous.
Yet, deep down,
Only those
Who have never written love letters
Are truly
Ridiculous.
Would they have ever replied to me
Back when I still wrote them—
With letters that would also have been
Ridiculous?
To tell the truth, today,
As I remember them,
My love letters
Were ridiculous.
(All extraordinary words,
Just like all extraordinary feelings,
Are, naturally,
Ridiculous.)
