After ten months, there was a response; the Void shouted back-- in a muted voice, just barely audible: "Hi".
I still love you. I never stopped, even though the letter I sent said I did. When love shifts phases from "mutual" to "unrequited," an imbalance occurs; I became the parabolic curve infinitely approaching Zero.
There is a sort of base-level Love-- call it Respect, perhaps-- which should be extended to all living beings. Whether or not the "human" or "sentient" sub-category of living beings deserves a special sort of respect or love is debatable, and it is a subject I have not yet examined fully. Regardless: you-- the Void-- are human, and are therefore living, and are therefore deserving of a base-level Love and/or Respect.
There was a time when I loved you in a special, remarkable way. I have been led to believe that there was a time when you, too, loved me in a special and remarkable way. Whether it was a conscious decision or not, something in your being chose to put an end to that golden period of time. Another part of your being chose to send this information across a great Void-- encrypted as ones and zeros (everything and nothing; wholeness and emptiness; singularity and a void of said)-- in a parabolic sine wave which lasted for four sentient, human minutes and twenty sentient, human seconds.
And when you gaze long into a Void, the Void also gazes into you.
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