Once
by lex via wisp - Inverse Times Sunday, Feb 17 2019, 9:13am
international / poetry / post

i saw ur face in the clouds
and ur body in the rolling sea
ur hair and eyes plunged me into ecstasy
and love permeated the entirety of space
and time but it was always there
u were the medium that allowed me to
reach into the heart of existence

it was love, indeed it was, the universe
knew it before i was born and planted in my being
the seeds of perfection which grew with my maturity,
nothing less would do

today the sea is as it is without my projections of perfection
the wind caresses and cools my cheeks and the rain moistens my lips
without ur sweet kisses

do not fret my lasting love, it was all me destined to reach
perfection which spilled throughout my experience as a man
i did not reject u, it became clear that i was a lover intoxicated with love
which i used as a palette to paint experience, it wasn’t a lie or self deception,
be comforted by the reality that for love’s sake the entire universe came into existence
love is the only driving force, it saturates existence tho few feel or see it today

remember me as that lover of love who focused it on u for a period until
u couldn’t bear the overwhelming irrationality of how or why i chose you,
u thought urself unworthy of my ecstatic embraces and intoxicated soul,
u knew i was pushing past the sensory and lost connection with the particular to embrace the universal,
tho had u followed me
u would have reached the pinnacle of exaltation,
but u hesitated and i was impelled to continue until I was no more,
lost in universal love spinning in eternity,
my body continues to buckle under its pressure, but such are the limitations of bodies,
only light is able to comfortably bear the force of pure love

do not fret my love tho we are apart, i continue to hear the music of dancing existence
when i think of u

if u read this then know that i now invest the sweet peace gained from love to u forever

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