" The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,

they're in each other all along."

From Essential Rumi

by Coleman Barks


Tuesday, July 5, 2011

[That moment]

That moment
when a tear fell off my cheek
for I’ve missed your kiss
contained a universe within:
someone’s joy and laughter
someone’s bliss
someone’s hatred
someone making love
someone’s cries of pain
someone’s birth
someone’s last breath
someone whispering the name
of the one they love
sunrise and sunset
raindrops and tears
war and peace
reflected within that moment
when I smiled
thinking about your lips
touching mine
and a tear fell off my cheek.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Escape 2

Trusting but guarded
hopeful yet skeptic
afraid to  admire
apprehensive
unassertive
afraid of being devoured
annihilated
 
terrified of the power
we have over one another
we’ve rescued ourselves by escape
eternal travelers
we’ve sentenced ourselves
for endless destitute
in the name of search for perfection
If we ever were to find yet again
divine love
we would escape it
once more
 
I wish that we knew how to love each other
braver…
 
Eterne

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Shell

I was a living, loving person:
My warm embrace,
the softness of my skin,
the scent of my hair;
my kiss and touch,
my laughter,
the timbre of my voice;

I was
the velvety darkness of my eyes
heavy with happiness
about being loved;

I was
my brightened face
by the rays reflected
from the Sea of Trust and Hope…

I was just the beginning
of your Great Love Story
all your life
you’ve yearned for.

* * *
Now I’m reduced to just a few snapshots
forgotten
on the bottom of your memory’s drawer…
Now I am a  shell of who I was:
I am a small shell you brought from vacation
and forgot…

Eterne

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The One and Only


A solemn face in the mirror,
my eyes darker than ever before…
You stole the light and the fire,
casually passing by through my soul…

Eterne
January, 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011

silver lining

the year 
which just had passed  
so strange  
was meant to be  
a year 
of a blossoming love  
and good fortune  
for us…  
it was a year 
of suffering,  
hurt  
and death  
and I am still to discover  
the silver lining...  
yet  
I wasn’t the one who died  
and neither  
did die my love…  

Eterne