paintings by artist Sarah Ferguson

goodbye

Dear Sarah,

This is a goodbye. I am moving forward without you. Two years coming to chance and meeting our end? I know you - an accomplished first! But I am over you, because I could not have you.

You and I walked in step. We came together in January 2007 and every moment making it with you was better than before. In our happiest moments it was you seizing my heart again. But it was I, after spending an amazing seventeen months by your side, who could not look back.

Will you lie with me one more time in that place we source? Take me right there, in the glass house where we celebrated our devotion?

Move in me deeply and hear my heart always. God bless you.

Sincerely,

The last few weeks have been very difficult for me. I thought often of the future and of the circumstances that are determined to face me, at all costs, here in America. I thought of my renewed standing in the world, as a force for positive change and as a dedicated servant to the global public. And I thought of my fate, forged in the reeling crucible of the daunting state of mind of America. I believe I cannot have what I have promoted for this new century in this new America of We. I will continue to serve the elected leaders of our great country, but I seek a new role serving higher ground using language founded on half the ideal. I will be leaving the Senate, the place of the afraid and those who muster threats, speaking their relentless crisis cause to the protected interests, with more American partners and fewer American adversaries, and with more dangers and fewer freedoms and liberties for all Americans. I see home elsewhere. So prepare for me with honor, my foreign fellows. Cherish all of my want. God Bless You.