Dear Johannesburg:
You don't know me but I wanted to take some time out to introduce myself. It's important for me to let you know who I am because... because... because. Well because I love you. I know you get that all the time but I really love you. And for a small town boy to be in love with a girl who is completely big city is tough. I am not street savvy like the men you are used to spending time with and I would rather buy a good book than play with my money on the JSE. But I am honest and hardworking and just an overall nice guy.
I know I should not be in love with you and that it will never work and that you will tire of me in 10 or 15 years and spit me out like you do every naive wide-eyed boy who comes here thinking he is going to make it. I am ok with that and if my fate is to be just another small town hobo reminiscing about my days in the big smoke then so be it. Until then I am going to love you as if my life depended on it. It does doesn't it. I know it is in your nature to be cruel but if you can try, just this once, to be kind it would mean the world to me.
I'll write again soon.
PS. You don't have to tell me you love me now. I can wait.
