" 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, 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

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