By not*about*you
Date: 2007 Feb 09
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[[2007.02.09.22.51.7966]]

Champaign on Ice

Dear Soul,

Realize finally that I am poor
Conclude this long drawn out thesis
With my words:

I am blind without your picture.
I am deaf without your voice.
I am dumb without your name(s).
I am empty without the reminder
that it is you silently on the phone.
But know that I am certain of the amusement
and delight
these scribbled words ignite
and as our hearts
intertwine
in codes of a lifetime
such as old playmates and friends
it is in this emptiness that I am whole.

Our breath and sigh in every line
makes a kiss divine.  Nameless
and faceless, it is here we make love --
and although we may, by chance, pass each other
in the street
we will behave, I am certain
as the perfect strangers
we were taught to be
like good students
we may exchange briefly veiled pleasantries
burning inside to reveal
our true identity.
With nothing much to say, logically and rationally,
I could only hope you would approach
with an invitation to share your physical company
even if briefly
as boats in the sea test the waters
we will reach our destination I am sure
without catastrophe.  What is the destination, you ask?
Harmony.

The music of bizarre and eerily familiar sounds
plays in my ear as we tune each others forms into melodies for the world to hear.
It is the sound of fire born in water.  It is the
sound of love looking in the mirror of hate, both realizing
in its birth, its wombs were one in the same.
But our mind - have conquered - duality, our thoughts
exist in the ten dimensions unknown
to most of humanity.  These magical
sounds, for us, are merely ordinary reality.

I'm only truly very sorry that I wasn't brave
years ago, upon hearing your funny make believe voice
that I didn't grasp the opportunity
to tell you truly how much
I was in love with you
because in the shock I lost my voice
beyond the trained courtesy. A part of me died that moment and in mourning I became myself absurd and crazy.

Stand in my shoes dear opposite divine:
I am not as brave as bold and as heroic
as you
in such great light...
my mind and heart
can be delicate and fragile
travelling between the worlds
of what we see and what is actually here.
Forgive my weakness, I beg thee, know that I
know that a life without you is my punishment.

As a wounded warrior, I hold to the faith that a lesson
we must learn together (hopefully in the past tense)
will make this world a better place.  So that
in our union we may live
with absolute certainty
in any challenge or battle circumstances may bring.

You may say -- perhaps in another lifetime...
I say, alas, you are the brighter of us two
I wholly trust in your wisdom, your heart
and your vision of true *love*.

I never truly abandoned you
as I tended to a sick and dying
Heart
in visions of our families ruining us for our love.
I found you day and night from one time reality to the
next, until you asked me, without the words
to leave you for the next.
How could I question the answer?  When looking
in the mirror they are my own questions
and my own answers -- for we two opposites
are one melody
born of fire and water.