August 6

August 6, 2000

San Antonio Texas

About the following poetry section entitled

The Karla Kay Reyes Collection

Dear Reader,

I wrote so many poems for my second wife, Karla Kay Reyes, that I have found some people think she is still the woman in my life. Wherever she is she would probably get a laugh out of that. However, since some of the more sugary poems like LOVE ACT I: ANYTHING FOR CHOCOLATE and LOVE, ACT II: POEM FOR A GIRLFRIEND, WIFE, AND MISTRESS have been included in the first section of this website I have decided to here include some of the poems that I sent her and that were until now pretty much old private back page stuff in my notebook (and hers for a while). I have decided to balance the lopsided view I was showing of that relationship. Based on what I have received in some of your e-mails I think it is proper to show things as they were. Karla and I loved each other quite intensely before, during, and after our divorce. Why we separated forever in 1996 is best left in the 1900s and time has now given each of us a new life. We have never spoken to each other again. Like many others going through such times, one or the other of us would at moments want to save the relationship when the other did not, and then it would shift around and there was still no agreement. And so it went. The poems that I wrote asking her to love me again were sent to her in the Spring of '96 but without a return address so even if she had wanted to answer, which I have every reason to believe was not her intent, she could not and she did not. I sent her the poems that were written for her, all 20 or 30 (or whatever the count is) of them, in a handwritten little booklet. She does not know that they have now been read by countless strangers on this website and in other places around the world where they have now been distributed in many forms. Ah, such is the nature of the written word. Now one poem in this section, the one called FOREVER was actually written because I was thinking of a child we lost through a miscarriage and so, months after we were no longer talking, I wanted to express my feelings and what I would have said to her if possible at the time. Well the nature of the written word is such that although feelings change, sometimes poems cannot be rewritten and so introductions like this one are in order to explain that perhaps the writer no longer feels exactly the way he did then. Yet for the sake of artistic integrity I wish to post these poems now. The website has been online for years now in different places and maybe the time has come to finally post these old notes. These then are the poems that I could not post but could not fully discard. They are a painful reminder to me of how not all ideals are met in the love relationship. Sometimes no matter how much we love we have to say good-bye and there is no turning back. I knew that even when I wrote some of the silly lines you will find here, but it was a true relief and a catharsis to for a moment dream and write as if one could really turn back the clock. So onward we go. Now you know. I hope that you are enjoying the rest of this website too and that you will somewhere along the way send me your comments as well. You can e-mail me at vicentereyes@yahoo.com. May your love stories have much happier moments and may God bless you always. Peace be with you.

Vicente Reyes

August 6, 2000

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