'I choose to love you in silence... For in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness... For loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance... For distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind... For the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams... For in my dreams, you have no end.'

• Rumi -