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“Dear World,

I wonder what it will be like without you and I have trouble feeling that I may never know. Will you ever forgive me for the human race for our terrible transgressions. Perhaps this is your forgiveness; through your grace you die to save us all from ourselves…just like Jesus? anyways…World you are the sickest (good kinda sick) and I love you with all of my imperfect and foul heart. I hope we will meet in space again when my soul takes another body and your soul becomes the opposite sex from my body so in that incarnation we can date… until then

Yours forever

————-“

“There once was a group of poets who met online to express themselves in haiku form. Though offerings were encouraged any time or day, the poets tended to gather most often on Wednesdays. Weekly themes were introduced, and once fateful Wednesday, a poet put forth this one…

Poet 1: 

2012: it ends?

How will it happen and/or

last words for the world…

Here is this week’s theme:

Its love letters to the end

Collaboration!!!”

“Dear world,

I don’t even know where to begin because we’ve been together for 20 years. I’ll start with the fact that I love everything about you. Your looks, your mystery, your touch…everything about you is flawless even if it’s imperfect. If it so happens to be that this is our last year together, I’ll remember you for all of he memories and events that went on because of you. You are the reason I am who I am, you are the reason I am where I am. I’ve been in love with you since the moment I met you. I guess it was love at first sight. I hope my love for you has time to grow. Let’s not let it end…

I love you - me. xx”

“Dear tiny but great WORLD, in this WIDE WIDE Universe. You AMAZE me. Don’t leave. You are my home; and I am your LOVER

From: one who is wishing you a long and healthy life”

Anonymous in Los Angeles, CA

“Dear World,

I have a lot of apologies I must make to you in order to not regret our last days together. First of all, I wanted to say that I’m sorry to have mistaken you for a singular person. I wanted to say I’m sorry for letting one thing that came from you cause me to reject you on numerous occasions. To the point, once, that I almost took myself from you. 

World, I want to make things right between us. I want to know you more- and say yes to your gifts of sunshine, sand dunes, friends I have opened up to yet, countries that haven’t culture-shocked me yet, the stories to that I have opened my ears to, the risk of plunging into a tropical sea-slug infested ocean, to surprise myself with scary heights - controlling a rope to repel over a waterfall next to my best friend. 

World, while I’m learning to receive from you, I also want to give back. Really, give back, with my words, my visions, ideas, all into type form, into the hands of the rest of the world so that we can all soak you up- so that you can soak you up. 

World, it’s hard to tell you with the little proof I have, but through the heartache, longing, self defeating behaviors, clutching onto the past (which is a you that is no longer there), through all of the misunderstandings, fights, unwantedness…parking tickets, I hope you know that I love you. I love you so much that I’m going to change for you. Transform myself into a person that gives and receives, gives and screams a grand YES! to you joyously.

Love,

A.M.”

A.M. in Los Angeles, CA

“Dear World, 

The top ten things I have learned about myself by living on this giant ball in the sky called earth are these. 

1. I learned while living here on and among the world I do not need to be afraid to be different, the truth is that nothing is more boring than being the same. Therefore, regardless of how long we have left on this earth and in this world, the challenge is to embrace the differences we all bring to the table and quit trying to be like everyone else. This world needs us all just the way we are. 

2. I have learned that it is more important to follow your heart and that love trumps rules. 

3. I have learned that it is important to smile at everyone, you might be the first and last greeting someone will receive for their day or possibly for the rest of their life. 

4. I have learned to sing songs in public to my kids. Making every opportunity to make a memory in the moment so that they will have stories to tell their children in the future.

5. I have learned the importance of keeping a journal of all the precious moments in my life as well as the struggles. The writings are a way of remembering that things do work out for the good if you just give it time.

6. I have learned that we must cherish all human beings, what goes around comes around. A community of love will love and a community of hate will hate, it is our choice.

7. I have learned to live in the moment while trusting God with my future.

8. I have learned not to try to get the last word in when I am disagreeing with others.

9. I have learned that if you can make a change for the better, do not wait for permission, just do it.

10. And last but not least, I have learned that I am enough, I do not have to be anyone else, this world needs me just the way I am.

Chris Nole

Minister/Mentor/Motivator”

Antelope, CA

“My Dear World,

First I want to thank you for reminding me each day that there’s still a lot of fight in me. Although you have knocked me down numerous times, youve also picked me up again, and for that I thank you.

If the world were to end this year, I can say that I’ve loved madly and limitlessly. I would go with the satisfaction of knowing what a full blown out orgasm feels like and the luxury of having many.

My regrets are few, but I do have them. I should have been a more present and available sister, daughter, friend, and partner. But if this is the last year I can go knowing that in my last year, I tried and put all my efforts into showing those I didn’t appreciate that I love them. I have learned that life has no meaning without the ones you love, and no matter how far you think you have pushed them away, they are always waiting for you with arms wide open. When I go, I want to go home where open arms are awaiting me.

Sincerely,

A worn heart”

Anonymous from Los Angeles, CA

“Dear World, 

I want to open,

like a sunflower,

tilting its head

up up up!

towards the light.

To write left-handed,

disguised.

To lose myself in it.

To become. 

To want.

To trust.

To forgive.

I want to open,

a blossom of a girl,

remembering -

It’s all OK.

Lines and circles and

half circles

create meanings - 

BUT the most elegant things

cannot be described

in words.

This is why god invented

music

and sunsets

and daffodils.

I search

and I search

and I search

and I search.

Still haven’t 

found it

yet.

People call me 

CRAZY.

Maybe it’s not such a bad thing.

Love,

Me”

Anonymous,

Los Angeles, CA

Thee Oh Sees headlining at The Chasm tonight! and Love Letters to the End will be there with 150 stamped, addressed envelopes for you to send your love letter to the world! (Taken with instagram)

Love letters

To: The World

From: Around the World

“When it gets close, I imagine us all sitting around, maybe there is a fire, and we get to relive all the best times, knowing there won’t be anymore of the worst. I imagine people singing favorite songs, telling favorite stories (remember that time…?), and somebody tells us the entire plot of Caddyshack, imitating Bill Murray on the good lines. Maybe there’s no more electricity. I hope those people have gone home and are sleeping next to each other or eating dinner while holding hands. I guess we don’t need electricity. We don’t have the threat of a future we’re scared of and everything becomes about now, and remember.

I don’t think we’ll miss the world, we as people, just because I don’t know where or what we’ll be. No one can say, so I suppose we can’t make anything out. But I’m pretty sure the universe will miss us. If we really are, as some say, a way for the universe to know itself, I think it will feel somehow lonely or have an identity crisis. I’ve had those too, so I can say with some degree of sureness that it’s alright, and will pass. 

So long, my friend. I’m sorry.

It’s ok.”

Anonymous in Los Angeles, CA

More letters came in the mail today :)

Send yours!

“Valentine’s Week 2012

Dear World,

You have been wonderful to me. As your guest, I feel equally privileged, whether basking in the beauty of your polished jewels or merely getting by in more common shelters.

Among the shredded skins of consumed life, we find treasure: a miracle of nature growing through the concrete or a message in that plastic bottle.

Are they echoes of a past now gone- or are the early buds of a future to come?

Now that time is scarce, I spend it lavishly. I notice, as if for the first time, the most everyday of things.

Before, I scampered like a nervous mole, choosing quasi-blindness as a down payment for speed and burrows.

Today, I embrace your offer. I gulp in your air and squint at your bright sky. I climb rocks and ruins to find your horizons. I let you wrap yourself over my senses and use this as a balm for me to share. Thanks for your postcards all these years. I am here.

Love,

Me.”

Anonymous in Trencin, Slovakia

“Dear Earth,

I know I am speaking to myself. If you (meaning me) are not ending today, then give me a cookie.”

Anonymous in Whittier, CA

“Dear World 2/16/2012

I’ve never been good with good byes. I don’t really see this as the end though. I actually see it as the beginning of something incredibly beautiful, something beyond the capacity of my imagination. A voyage into a foreign realm, a journey of mystery- I close my eyes and dive into the depths of my soul. I am at home in my physical body. I feel the cool wind blow gently through my hair and the sun kiss my soft cheeks. I let go of everything outside of this moment, finding freedom in simply being. I am fully aware that I may never experience these sensations again, this year might be my last. I don’t cling to you world. I rest in your beauty, I cherish your gems and savor my last embraces with you. Your love is the truest love I’ve ever known. As this cycle ends, a new one begins in its place. I ride a wave of transcendence, floating peacefully into the dark abyss.

Anonymous in Los Angeles, CA

“Dear World,

Thank you for the good and the take-aways. The mind of a person who was not only lost but forgotten at the same time. My last letter to the world will be a question. Did you really care about the lost? And the ones that haven’t been found yet? So tell me- why you were so cold even on a sunny day?

Dealing with the hands of this world made me feel, if it was to end tonight, what is the outcome if it’s only death? 

So to live is knowing you would die one day. Who would cry? or who would smile? You would never know because your eyes would be closed and your mind would be finally free from pain and lies and things that the world can only give you. so goodbye and I hope I see you in the next world.”

Javion in Los Angeles, CA

“Dear World…

I’ve known that I love you for awful now, but I used to be unsure. I would look at your intricacies and webs, the triangles of connecting stars, and I’d be lost in the chaos, unsure of where I was and what I could see…

but that’s changes.

I was so entangled in my life and so confused by the patterns that 

I finally closed my eyes

and then I saw it.

All of you at once, a mist storm at the ocean’s edge, the cliffs above the breakers, a Himalayan Gypsy waking on the same ground for 80 years, shelter and exposure, the lifespan of a redwood, geological layers and mythology, human systems, rivers, oceans, clouds and rain and snow, every thread indistinct and invisible in the overwhelming gasp of blanket beauty!

I woke up as if I’d been reborn.

Once I’d seen you, naked and whole, every confusing thread became a secret message, a clue, a symbol alluding to the everlasting why…

I thought I’d be sad that you were ending, if you were ending, but I realized that my love wouldn’t die if you closed your eyes…

…on the contrary…

you’re finally waking up…

…and I love you for it

Love Letters to the End mailbox (Taken with instagram)