"She is a song" has been the winner of the Love and Heartbreak Letters contest "Los Novios de El Mojón 2014". Its author, Emilio González Batista, has won a prize of 400 euros. In second place was the letter "I hope it's a forever", by María José Rivero Torres, who has won 200 euros.
This Wednesday, the Casa Museo del Timple hosted the final of this contest, which had a jury made up of Language and Literature teachers. In addition, 2nd year Secondary students from the IES Costa Teguise have learned about the new literary work by Ismael Lozano, "The Island of Sleeping Dragons", set in Lanzarote.
The Councilor for Culture, Olivia Duque, has expressed her gratitude to Ismael Lozano for sharing the details of his latest novel with students from the Costa Teguise Institute and has also congratulated the winners of the love letter contest for having "captivated" the jury with their "sensitivity and originality", as well as for their ability to transmit "feelings through written language".
The City Council has sent the two winning letters to the media, which are reproduced in full below:
"She is Song"
"My beloved lady:
My nervous hand trembles when writing these letters, because when addressing them to you, in order
so that you can believe them, the recklessness of offending you by expressing my feelings, forms
in my mind an absurd and incomprehensible torment, because the great love I profess for you is
so great that it is indescribable.
I hope you are well. As always, heartfelt, serene and beautiful. Admired among so many things, that anyone would want to have. It is my intention to dedicate my opinions towards you and with them I would like to attract your sensitivity on your part. I would like to show you my affection, my love and my love. At the same time, I would like to pay tribute to her elegance and delicacy, for her style, her beauty and for her warm heart.
Last night I dreamed that I was at a dance. Desperate, I waited for her arrival
anxious to feel it… to dance it… to live it. When the moment came when you
appeared, jealousy took over me. It was a "living hell"... the situation dominated me.
That precious voice, which lulled her charm. That cracked timple, which at his feet
He surrendered to her. It was like a nightmare that had crept into my dream.
Angry with jealousy, I armed myself with courage. Like a duel or contest against the dresser and singer, I put all my courage to take her out to dance and in that dance demonstrate that what I feel for you is the most beautiful and pure love, full of feelings and passion.
My feet caressed the ground, like the breeze the fine grass. My body, in magical turns, like thirst in the calm fountain. Each turn was an embrace. Each look a sigh. Each beat, a beautiful bond that with my arms, agreed. Like a celestial dance, the two of us formed dancing to the same beat. As if floating in the air next to you made into a song.
It was a beautiful dream from which I woke up crying. I don't know why, but among so much what I wanted most was to be her only owner. Many people love her, especially for her expression, free…flirty and wise. For her shed tears, for her moments of joy, for being present every day and impregnated in our souls.
Perhaps you should know, my dear FOLIAS, that throughout my life I have cried for your being. I have loved her and I love her so much that my life would not make sense, if it were not for her existence. For her constant presence in every step I take. Well, I am entirely yours and in her reflection I look at myself, even the air I breathe turns into FOLIAS. She is my lady a reference and an example in my following.
Without wanting to say goodbye, I do it attentively. It is not an ordinary farewell but with honors and reverences, without turning my back, while with slow steps I retire, keeping the sighs that my heart gives for her presence. Hoping to feel her again in any place, at any moment, I give her my feelings that are pure, to serve her, from this… a servant, like so many others that she has. A deer, whose blood boils, for hearing her made into a song.
Sincerely.
Your eternal love".
"I hope it's a forever"
"Dear Soledad, after so many years together I have to say goodbye to you, but not before expressing how much I am going to miss you.
How many paths have we traveled together!... How many shortcuts did we choose to avoid pain!
When it seemed that everything was collapsing and that a new path of tears was starting again under our feet, you were there, always guarding my sorrows, my mistakes and my stumbles.
You were for me the older sister I never had, the one who guided me and drove away the shadows… Terrible shadows of failures that were nailed like stingers in my skin, that drilled my self-esteem and my illusions of the future. But you, imperturbable, strong as the oak that does not bend the wind, silent but powerful, whispered in my ear what no one else could hear… "time heals everything and those scars will only serve to remind you that you were once strong, you collapsed but were reborn, you learned from your mistakes and today you are free". Sweet words that resonated in my conscience every time the blow of heartbreak returned to inhabit me.
When "loving" was no longer part of my plans, he appeared… A person I thought did not exist. And I wanted to stay with you, I fought for our deep friendship, so that our bond would not be broken, because with you I felt safe and at peace, with you everything was easier… I had become accustomed to you, to feel the silence of my own happiness…but the winds that threw me towards him were so strong that suddenly spring arrived and the winters were healed, unexpectedly the heart spoke in a different tone, with an unknown melody and I asked myself "maybe this is Love?".
And if this was the love that was everything before?. I was confused, terrified of starting a new path that perhaps would lead as always to a new failure, but you encouraged me and made me aware that without failures there are no successes, without defeats there are no victories and without heartbreak there is no love. Everything in this life is a matter of balance and that is why I have to say goodbye to you (say goodbye definitively or if it will be a "see you later") but I take the risk, I want to be brave as you taught me and I abandon the security of your company to embark on this journey without knowing where it will take me, with the awareness that I will always have a port to return to… You!!
There you will be prepared to dry my tears and teach my sorrows to swim (because sorrows know how to swim, and we know that well). I know you will be there, because you are part of me, you are my echo and my safest refuge.
Conflicting feelings overwhelm me; my present is life, my past is you (and I wish you will always be past, but I am going to miss you so much!).
Goodbye friend, I hope this farewell is a FOREVER.
Teguise, March 25, 2014"
