Dear Aphrodite,

Today is the day we honor you and your portfolio. I have learned the lessons of Love over the past 15 months. I have suffered two broken hearts in a span of a single year and still I devote myself to you. 

Yes, I understand that love has two sides: 1) a passionate, joyful and radiant light; and 2) a raging, all-consuming inferno. Both are eternal and ever-lasting. One connects and builds bonds between people; the other severs those bonds. Through it all, Love blinds us.

On this day of all days, I  write this missive to you in hopes you can hear me. I made a single wish on my birthday – which has yet to come true…if ever. It was a wish for Love. True Love.

I declare my commitment to Love. I declare my devotion to You. 

I know now how to wield Love as a sword and shield. To defend and to attack. To champion and to cripple. To protect and to wound. The sword cuts both ways. The shield bludgeons and bruises. One cannot have Love without the risk of pain.

So, I ask thee, Aphrodite, on this night of Love: make my wish come true. Lest, I will serve you in celibacy – a priest to the cause. To bathe others in the Violet light.

Love,
Randy