FAWM: "Love Letter from Anselm"

Love Letter from Anselm

2025 by @raspberry33

Skirmish: Love Letters Across Time (@frostbeat)

Liner Notes

This is a very late entry to the "Love Letters Across Time" #skirmish. I'm putting the final touches on a collaboration with Nadia C and Liz @kahlo2013 that might post later tonight after everyone's had a chance to review and approve. Meanwhile, this was my first take on the lyrics, based on St. Anselm's letter to his lover. (Yes, long story...Google it! It was before he became a saint.) Consensus was to dump the archaic English, and do a rewrite. But I liked the lyrics well enough to have Suno #AI create a demo. Hey, it's less than 12 hours until FAWM 2025 is history, so everything must go!

Lyrics

LOVE LETTER FROM ANSELM (adapted from St. Anselm's letters by raspberry33)

Though I desire to write to thee, soul most beloved of my soul, Though I intend to write to thee, I know not how best to begin my address. For whatever I know about thee is sweet and joyous to my spirit Whatever I desire for thee is the best which my mind can conceive.

For I saw thee such that I loved thee as thou knowest; I hear thee to be such that I yearn after thee, God knoweth how much: Whence it cometh that whithersoever thou goest, my love follows thee And wherever I remain, my longing embraces thee.

And since thou dost eagerly ask me by thy messengers Exhort me by thy letters, and urge me by thy gifts, to have thee in remembrance Forever