Letters to Juliet

Letters to Juliet written by students from Year 9 as part of their English Library Lesson

By Poppy

Dear Juliet

Once again, I find myself in a predicament, you see this summer I found myself in your beautiful city of Verona and oh how I fell in love.  However, I did not just fall in love with the sights but of a handsome young man that I met, Lorenzo was his name, Lorenzo Bartolini.

He is and was everything.  His eyes, his smiles he was so kind, but I guess it was not to be.  You see Juliet, I am from far away, far, far away, too far to see my love, and upon my arrival back home I felt as if I left a part of me back in Italy.

Every waking moment I spend thinking of him, it consumes me.  So please, Juliet I need your help, help me find my love.  It will be a debt I can never repay.

Yours truly

Claire

Colorado, United States

By Chisom

Dear Juliet

Another year and I’m alone waiting and hoping that all my dilemma dies down.  You see, I have been seeing this guy for two years, we clearly love each other but our relationship is not supported.

Most of my friends believe I’m crazy falling in love with someone a decade older than me, but I’m 22 and he’s 32 and our love is real, but I’m still scared I’ll get judged by a lot of people.

My parents also don’t support us, as I’m a black catholic woman and he’s an Asian, Christian man.  You may wonder what the problem is?  Well, its his race and nationality, my mum wishes for me to marry and date someone from the same country and ethnicity as me.  I don’t want to, I love Han and I always will, I just hope my parents can see that.

Han and I are planning to run away and start a life together but, I remember the promise I made to my parents, the promise that I would take care of them in old age.

Oh, dear Juliet, what shall I do?

Affectionately

Chismo B Owerri, Nigera

By Harry

Dear Juliet

I’m in love you see, I met someone special, someone who I will never find again, who I had such strong feeling for.  This beautiful individual called Charlotte.  I’m convinced it was love at first sight.  However, I met her in your city, Verona, where she lives meaning that I had to leave her.

I need to go back, the way I felt for her is a way I cannot describe.  I need your help Juliet.  The joy she brought me was unforgettable, her eyes, her lips, her hair everything about her was so perfect.  Her bright blues eyes stood out from wherever she was.

She probably has forgotten about me but, I don’t care I need her, my life will never be complete without her by my side. The way her glistening blonde hair swayed in the wind.

The trip in which I met her was over two years ago.  However, I haven’t gone through a day without thinking of her.  I’ve gone long enough now without her, I need her, which is why I need your help.  Should I go there?  I need your advice and guidance.

Terry Close

Herts, England

By Amelia

To dearest Juliet

I hope that you are doing well.  I write to you Juliet because I have met the love of my life in Verona.  He is beyond handsome.  We briefly had a conversation when he told me the directions.  Although, it has been years since I last went to Verona. 

He was called Lorenzo, he had beautiful forest green eyes, his face was sculptured to perfection with an olive glow.  I’ve grown up with a very religious family and they have always wanted me to marry someone who was religious and Italian, the only things is he isn’t religious.  I’ve never been allowed to date anyone until the age of 18, so, I have never really loved anyone, I’m getting older now.  I need to find someone soon, I know what I will do otherwise.  I guess what I am trying to say is, can you help me?

I need to find him, to look into his forest green eyes, and take me back to my younger self.  He is somewhere among the beauty of Verona, where the sun lays over each aspect of the town.  The bright lights will guide me to him, with your help, I could be the happiest girl alive.  Help me find this loving, handsome, caring man of my dreams.  I know you can help, I know what you’re capable.  Give me the courage to go and get my man.  I’ve not gone a single day, for the last years of my life without dreaming and thinking of Lorenzo.

Will you make true love come true?

Warmest regards

Claire Smith

Unites States of America

By Jaeden

Dear Juliet

My name is Claire and recently for my summer holiday I went to a place called Verona, where you’re from Juliet!  There I met a boy called Lorenzo and I fell in love with him but, the problem is that I had to leave Lorenzo to go back to my home country of America.

What should I do Juliet?  Leave and forget about Lorenzo and never truly love another man? Oh, Juliet, this is so difficult.  Perhaps, destiny will bring us back together again, perhaps you have some influence there in the heavens to maybe bring us back together again.

Maybe, its written in the stars, star-crossed lovers it has a nice ring to it.  Oh, anyway maybe you can help.

Farwell, waiting for your letter in anticipation.

Claire

United States of America

By Ronnie

Dear Juliet

When I was younger my family and I went on holiday to Verona and whilst I was there I fell in love with the most perfect woman.  She was just mazing, nothing wrong with her I could already see us getting married and even having children and even her changing her name to Mrs Richard Figrogoli, she was just astonishing, I could say she blew me out of the room.

But, I was always too dull for her and she never saw me with admiration

One day I saw her on Facebook saying ‘mutual friends’ and it just made me want to work to turn me into her lord, her saviour or even her king.  The day I see her will fill my eyes with joy and endeavour to be the man I should be.

I would do anything for the love I have been waiting for and I will give her affection.  I love that girl so much.  If you can help me, I know that I will be blessed.

Warmest regards

Richard Figrogoli

Lottie Lodge, Hertford, England

By Ellie

Dear Juliet

There’s a man in my life, a loving, respectful, romantic man who I love.  Yet, is he the one for me, I love him but does he love me back.  He keeps giving me mixed signals and I just don’t know what I should do.  I haven’t seen him for around a week or so as I met him on holiday in Verona, I gave him my number but he never calls.  His name is Danny and he was the first ever man to say he loves me, the connection and deep feelings, I fell for him, I want him with all my heart, I need him……..

So, I am writing to you for advice Juliet, do I go back to Verona?  Is our love doomed?  What do I do?  I can’t bare it, a whole month with my true love finished, or is it just the beginning.

I could write a million letters about him, his soft hazel eyes, curtained brown hair, his perfect face that looks like it was hand sculptured with his sharp jaw, thick eye brows.  However, most of all his charming personality that would make any girl instantly fall to her knees.

I’m due to go back to Verona in a few years for a family wedding.  Do I go look for him?  Will he still feel the spark of love that I do?  Will he remember me?  Will he have found a new love….?   Is there anything, I can do now to keep the love brewing?  Please if you can find my Danny, Danny Taverno my true soulmate, ask him what happened, how he feels, if he still loves me like he said he did.

So, please write back and send me advice Juliet.  Thank you so much for reading me letter.

Yours sincerely

Eliana Towning

United Kingdom

By Elena

Dear Juliet

I know that your answer in unlikely to be received but I’m not sure who to ask.  I am at a crossroad.  I can either be unhappy with my parents or follow my heart.

You see Juliet, my father is as controlling as they come, he doesn’t let me out past 10 pm, I don’t have a car, a driver takes me everywhere and most importantly I cannot date unless the person fits in with his  impossible standards.  He is extremely powerful and influential in our small religious town.

How have I fallen for a poor boy?  It’s like a laughable fate, I suppose, one like you went through.  Maybe he is the Romeo to my Juliet.

I only see him on my brief visits to the out of town farm.  I tell my father that its to help the poor animals and I do help them but, it’s mostly for my own pleasure.  He always greets me with his freshest handpicked fruits and shows me around the newest additions to the farm.

I haven’t told anyone, only my driver knows as he has seen us.  My friends cannot know, as much as I enjoy their company, they would not understand.  You see, they hold the same beliefs as my father, such as we need to marry perfect religious men.

Please help me Juliet.  What do I do? 

Yours sincerely

Elena

Poland

By Nicholas

Dear Juliet

A couple of years ago my family and I travelled on holiday to a beautiful place called Verona.  It was a very nice city and we had lots of fun there.

On one of these days, I met this boy that forever changed my life.  I fell in love with him and found that his name was Lorenzo.  He was a very nice and charming boy that made me feel, like I was in a dream every second I was with him.  However, we were only there for a week so our time was cut short of what I hoped for it to be.

As we went to the airport I looked around for him in desperation as I hoped that I could get one more goodbye.  5, 10 15 minutes passed, but Lorenzo was nowhere to be seen.

The following summer I begged and pleaded with my parents to go back for I had discovered a hole in my heart I had never knew existed.  On the very day that we arrived back home from Verona I knew that something was missing from my life, something only Lorenzo could give me, love.

I waited for a year to get the chance to see him again, which felt as though I had spent decades alone.  I tried searching for a new love, but deep down I knew that nobody could bring me joy like Lorenzo.  When I found out that we were going to Spain instead, I was devastated, it felt as though I had been shot by a bullet straight in the heart.  I never stopped thinking bout Lorenzo, every moment of spare time I had, I was thinking about him.

Weeks, months and even years passed with me longing to see him again, even if there was a brief chance that I could live through this heartbreak.

A couple of days ago, my friend told me about the service that helps you with love problems.  They said that all I would have to do is to write a letter to Juliet in Verona and then should receive a reply giving you advice.  At least, I had found a way to break free from this misery and see him again.  I didn’t have a lot of faith at first, but then I remembered that Juliet is apparently in Verona, where Lorenzo is!  And, so I am sending this letter to you Juliet, pleading that you tell me anything you could possibly know about how I can see him again.  My heart has been longing to hear his sweet loving voice again ever since I left your beautiful city.

I hope that you will read this letter and guide me into the sweet bliss of Lorenzo’s love.

Warmest regards

Claire

California, USA

Juliet Capulet

Vicolo Santa Cecilia 9

37121, Verona

Italy

My Dears

Finding love isn’t easy, in fact sometimes it can be difficult finding the love of your life.

Some people fall in love quickly others warm to it slowly.  But there is one common thing about it, that love doesn’t happen if you don’t take a chance.

I don’t know how your story ended, but if you felt then that it was true love, then it’s never too late.  If it was true then, why wouldn’t it be true now?  All you need is the courage to follow this heart of yours.

I am hoping that you know the love I had for my beloved Romeo, a love that could have crossed many oceans, a love that was so pure and innocent, and even though it was a love that was tragically cut short, it was better to have loved for that short moment than not to have loved at all.

I would like to believe that you have the courage to seize the moment and I hope that one day soon you will.

All my love

Juliet