In Love with a Stranger: Testimony of the Heart

by Marija Matic

Overview

Souls recognize each other by their vibes, not by appearances.

The book you’re holding in your hands, In Love with a Stranger, is about pure love—love to a stranger you have never met yet you know and feel the truth inside you as the truest truth of all. And you absolutely know that no one would be able to go against your inner experience or offend you in any way that we as humans often intend to.

Love is the divine purity of all existence; it’s the only truth that I know. Feeling and living love are the most precious gift and ingredient of our identity that no one can touch or defeat. The truth of love may hurt but only momentarily, never eternally!

To stand for the truth is never easy. One has to walk bold and straight. I took the way of boldness, I took the risk, I packed up my gears, and I took the journey. You are all invited to walk with me!

Everything written in this book
You may find as true
But to see it in such a way
You must know the right window
To look through

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781984500625
Publisher:	Xlibris AU
Publication date:	08/17/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	94
File size:	34 MB
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Editorial Reviews

2018-11-27

Affection for an individual gives way to love for the world in this debut collection of romantic poetry.

In the introduction to her raw, passionate book of verse, Matic discusses the peculiar way in which love for a person can transform itself into something larger and more selfless: "I have realised that the greatest, most powerful love of all has touched me and it wasn't just a feeling of love for this one man but a deep passionate love and respect for humankind as a whole." The structure of this quote mirrors the organization of the book. Early on in the volume, Matic gives readers lots of deeply personal love poems; for example, here are the closing lines of the aptly titled "I Miss You": "I miss you in the magic / Of the blossom trees / Everywhere I feel you / In everything I miss you / Everywhere I see you / Then I try not to cry." Here and elsewhere, the poet writes emotional works dedicated to a "stranger," many of which are pulled back from the brink of triteness by the obvious purity of her devotion to this man. (Matic, who lives in Australia, refers to this stranger pseudonymously as G.H. Eagle Spirit and includes some of his notes to her at the end of the volume.) And yet the collection gains in power and scope when her love shakes free from this narrow idiom and takes flight: "I fell in love / With a stranger I have never seen / Should I search for the answers / Written in the stars / Or just close my eyes and let the river flow / To carry me on the wings of time / Into the realm I have never known." Unexpected shifts like this one, away from the stranger and toward the water and the stars, give the poems in the second half of the book a jolt of energy and a feeling of wonder.

Moving verse for a mystery man.

Kirkus Reviews