IN YOUR EYES
I wrote this some number of years ago, and came upon it anew: You could say (no pun intended) ‘with fresh eyes’. This was written almost autonomously as far as I remember. I’ve tweaked it a bit since then!
When I touch you,
it is in my mind.
When I kiss you,
I feel soft yielding lips…
but they aren’t yours.
When I read what you say
I am fired
by your inspiration,
and by your spirit.
You affect me.
I understand you.
I know you.
Yet I do not ‘know’ you.
In another time and place
we would be lovers.
(Oh, to be multi-dimensional!)
But we are born
out of sequence,
out of sync …
with the span of life;
We’re in different phases.
You are young in body,
but old in spirit.
I am at least old in body.
I transmute my feelings
from the physical love
that the body desires,
into the love
and understanding
of one spirit
for another.
There is no smuttiness.
No unholy alliance –
or the intention of one.
It is simply that
when two ‘like souls’ meet,
there is a mutual attraction
that cannot transcend
down from
the ethereal
into the solidity
of the physical
and still remain
clear and true.
It becomes tainted
with the sinews
and the muscles:
it becomes tangled
in the strands of nerves
and the roundabouts
of synapses:
it becomes confused
by the streams
of characters
that have become
the ‘other’ way;
the other way
of communion:
becomes magnetised
by the influence
of dissimilar
chromosomes.
Becomes human.
Yet this bond is
fragile – in a special
kind of way.
Almost like
fairy dust …
astonishing …
magnificent …
ageless …
fascinating …
captivating …
sparkling …
in your eyes.
I wonder sometimes, can we ever be really ‘depressurized‘? we all search for love, for Eros -an ancient Greek, I forgot who, was saying that if we knew the importance of Eros, we would be worshipping him instead of Zeus.
Goodness, yes! I don’t know who said that either, but I can understand it, can’t you?
Thank you for reading and commenting.
Allen
Absolutely beautiful. WE are all connected in the web of life and also multidimensionally in my world view. We have connections to people we have not met in physicality and can meet people here for the first time who are like old dear friends, nebulous in the mists of time.
Love and romance are intrinsically laced through the web.
There are so many delicious mysteries we maybe do not understand at conscious level…but the soul does.
They say the soul shows in the eyes, I think that too.
Alison x
Multidimensionally the connections must be innumerable. Who was it who said we are all part of the Whole? (*takes tongue out of cheek*)
The eyes. Oh, yes, the eyes! They say they are the windows to the soul don’t they. Certainly, for me, they are immensely important in communication – and not only when using words, just looking will suffice: A couple of seconds eye contact tells me more about someone than just about anything else.
Thank you for reading and commenting, Alison. Greatly appreciated.
Allen x
As IYP comments, the true worship is of Eros, the erotic and the sensual in the other, and it is the love of the other as a vessel for that Eros that is the love that shines and not the love of the actual other.
A lot of questions to ponder.
Absolutely! Given consideration I think most would decide that any form of love is a good thing.
Thank you for reading and commenting – it is greatly appreciated.
Allen
There are few things more wonderful than having such a connection with another person, that love that isn’t physical, that excitement of exchanging ideas and thoughts, that feeling you’ve known them forever and, once this life is over, will meet them again.
Beautifully written. I love this.
I so appreciate your lovely appraisal, Gillian.
Thank you for reading and commenting. Makes my day. 🙂
Allen
x
We have lost – and are loosing too many people at present; and I’d like to think there is a place, or a time when all will be reconciled; and what are we to each other? When the ocean is drained do we see that the separate islands are part of the whole? Maybe not the poems message – but it got me this way.
Thanks…..Dougie
I can see where you were drawn to that thinking, Dougie. Thank you for your thoughtful comment. Greatly appreciated.
Allen