Letter To Elvis by Anna Harris (books for 20 year olds txt) 📖

A day like today thirty three years ago you died in your beautiful house in top of the hill in Memphis, so many people cried your death, I was just a kid back then but that day I would never forget, I can assure you of that. Back then I didn’t know you were going to be so important in my life, sure I liked you and have lots of sweet love for you but back then I wasn’t aware of the impact you were going to have in my life so many years later, actually after my mother’s death five years ago.
You came into my life and became my friend and companion, your music was to me a balm for my wounds, you know very well how painful is to lose a mother, you lost yours when you were in the Army and it really changed your life forever, I am very sure you thought that nobody was going to love you like she did, a good mother’s love is very difficult to find, a mother will never be replace. I wasn’t alone completely because you were with me and I felt your sweet presence in my life with your songs, with your spirit, you know that gospel song “Sweet, Sweet Spirit” well that is how you came to me and I felt it that day at Graceland when I visited your house on top of the hill, I shall never forget that day, it was the sweetest day of my life.
You were so alone, yes, sure, you had money and fame, screaming women and affairs with beautiful stars but you didn’t experience a real love and I think that was the reason your life went downhill, there is Johnny Cash who found June Carter and her love for him was so strong he was saved from distruction, that could it had happened to you Elvis, instead that lonely life lead to your early departure from this world, I am very sure now you are better off with your caring mother but it would it had been nice to see you grow older. So many times I asked myself what if we had met, what if you had met someone like me, I can assure that you would it had a different kind of love, you see true love is strong and can make a difference in someone’s life, too bad I was just a kid living too far away from Memphis but it would it had been so incredible to experience love with you, making you see what a good love is all about. Elvis, fame and fortune is nothing and you know it very well, you say many times that you were alone, so many people didn’t understand your spiritual quest, we would it had been a good pair, I had been a spiritual searcher for a very long time. All of this feelings and thoughts made me start writing a novel titled “Forget Me Not” this is your different differently told, I wanted to tell a story of how things would it had been if we had met in Memphis so many years ago and of course I was not a kid but an adult, this story move me to tears so many times because a great love is involve with every line, every scene, it has all my heart and soul and that is why I am taking my sweet time to write it, every time I read it is touching and it makes me realize how much my heart feels for you, love is a powerful thing, it can save or destroy, I am sure you know that.
You had a beautiful house, every year people come in day like this to pay tribute to you, is wonderful to see how much people love you and respect you. That house has a lot of sentimental value, you bought it for you mamma, it was a present for her and now no longer serves as a home, is a museum that makes lots of money, is good for your fans to go and pay tribute to you but also is scary to see what and empire your name has built, your fans still love you and remember you with Graceland open to the public or not. In my story I try to see everything from love’s eyes, maybe people would say I am naïve but I can assure you money is not every thing to me, for some people money and power are everything, for me love is more important, I lacked a family, real warmth and love, I lost that with the death of the people I love and for that matter to me is more precious to have a home filled with people that love me than money and glory. In that story where my character is your widow I stayed back in the house on top of the hill raising our kids with simple values, I am very sure that you approve of that sentiment.

Liza has grown up outside Graceland, she loves the house, I am very sure but it would it had been so great for her to stay in that family home where she felt your love and presence every single day.
So many things had happened since you died that hot summer day on August 16, 1977, years had passed but people still sing your beautiful songs, see your concerts in film and enjoy your movies (even if some you didn’t like making) but those movies could make people feel happy and joyful, yes you wanted to be a serious actor but believe me they can give a smile to a person I need of one, my sister was very sick and she found in your movies a joy for her pain, you see they can make a difference too.
Today I had an inspiration to write you a letter, perhaps it could be a book titled “Letter To Elvis”, I don’t want to make money out of it, I just want to write my feelings for you, perhaps it would just be given to a few friends and nothing more, I just want to express what my heart feels for you and also tell you a few things about this world of ours that is now so messed up, money rules the world, people are more inclined to go for cash than spirit, you on the other hand had the money but wanted to find that internal peace to go on striving in this mad world, yes, Elvis, I do understand, believe me I too strive for balance in my life.
Is so difficult to believe you have grandchildren, yes you do, recently twins, Liza is hardly seen on television, she is more private, I truly won’t talk about your ex wife because I don’t think I should say anything negative in this letter about her, I think you probably know how I feel, you know my spirit because you live in the spirit world, I don’t have to tell you my sentiments, so I won’t talk about her here, the only thing I would say is that it was wrong the way it was make public her romance with Mike Stone, that I felt it was an embarrassment to you, I know how hurt you most had felt, love can be cruel sometimes but also betrayal is hurtful, you see Elvis I think that even if she felt like a recluse in Graceland there is no excuse for certain behavior, any how I have nothing to say on her because I know that with all your faults you loved her.
Yes, yes, yes, you were unfaithful, yes, you had women, yes you know women liked you, screamed for you, they wanted a piece of you, maybe all of you and it was perhaps natural for you to go with your guts but I also know one thing, if you and the person you were with loved each other I know for sure you would it had probably stay off so many things that tarnished your life because love is the most powerful of emotions and it heals, it can break two people up. It hurts me to know how much you wanted love in your life, how much you wanted a woman that really loved you, all of your life after your ex wife you looked for that companionship but even if you found that for a while it didn’t make you complete. You knew so well how alone you really were, you needed a soul mate, a lover, a friend and a companion, that was so very difficult to find, and is so sad to know how alone you died that hot summer day but also even if that happened so many people all over the world mourned you because they truly loved you.

I do remember the first time I saw you, I lived in Spain and I saw on television the special Aloha From Hawaii via satellite, that day something happened to me, I don’t know what, I couldn’t understand a word you were singing, I loved your music but all I could see was a handsome man sweating and all I wanted to do was clean that sweat off your face, gently and with lots of love, why I felt that at that tender age is beyond me, all I know that I had never forgotten that image, later on my life went on but now so many years later I remembered that day, something bonded us that day, you were alive and healthy singing to so many millions of people around the world, one of them being me, a young girl who was not screaming or making remarks about you, I was just somehow feeling something that I would comprehend so many years later, a love that could only be written in a special way through stories and letters, I need to open up my heart to you, tell you all I can about myself, about your world and about life.

I got so many things to say to you and I would in letters. You saved me from dying when I was so lonely and hurt after my mother's death. You will always be special to me and I would always remember you with letters and stories.

with love always;

Anna

Publication Date: 11-24-2010

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