Rumi

“I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to love you in loneliness… For in loneliness no one owns you but me,

I choose to adore you from a distance… For distance will shield me from pain,

I choose to kiss you in the wind… For the wind is gentler than my lips,

I choose to hold you in my dreams… For in my dreams, you have no end.”