Evolving from Homosapiens to Homonoeticus

Dear Sappho,

It seems like the human race has devolved since your time on the planet. Heterosexuality was not compulsive and the arts flourished. Now we have global warming, mass violence and corporate greed destroying the fabric of our society. You didn’t have guns and now guns in the US kill 30,000 people every year. Please tell me how you see humanity surviving into the future. 

Your Brain In Love and Intimacy

Dear Sappho,

I know I am in love with another woman. It seems like every song is to her, every thought I have is of her, and I can’t stop these lovely feelings, nor do I want to. The problem is she does not express her feelings easily. I don’t know if she fears intimacy is incapable of intimacy or just doesn’t feel the same way I do. Do you have any insight on love and intimacy and the difference between them?

To Atthis

Sappho is currently visiting her friend Erinna, a fellow poet on Greek Island of Tilos in the Aegean Sea archipelago. She hopes you will like her poem.

To Atthis

Though in Sardis now,
 she thinks of us constantly and of the life we shared.
 
She saw you as a Goddess
 and above all your dancing gave her deep joy.


Now she shines among Lydian women like 
the rose-fingered Moon
 
rising after sundown, erasing all stars around her, and pouring light equally
 
across the salt sea
 and over densely flowered fields lucent under dew. 


Her light spreads
 on roses and tender thyme
 and the blooming honey-lotus.
Often while she wanders she remem
bers you, gentle Atthis, 

and desire eats away at her heart for us to come.

I Dedicate this Song to You

Dear Sappho,

I recently amused myself by compiling a play list of all the love songs I have ever had with all of my serious lovers. I then asked my girlfriend, not for the first time, what her song with her ex was. She told me again, she couldn’t remember or doesn’t know. I was flabbergasted, how could she not know “their” song after more than 10 years of living together.  Either she’s very discrete, diplomatic or completely unsentimental. I have even had songs for women I have just had a crush on. What criteria do you use for picking a love song and how come everyone doesn’t have one?