The Gift
February, 2009
In the darkness of a moment
We found each other.
An understanding,
Foreign to all
But the souls of two
Who stepped off the
Precipice into an
Connection that is
Friendship, yet beyond
Friendship.
Skin and flesh speaks.
Distanced from intellect
And reason, a jangling
Chemistry that confuses
The sense of morality,
Our sense of fidelity,
But bears it’s own
Integrity of the spirit.
Gears in an incomprehensible
System, we fuse together
Meeting profoundly
With each turn
Our precise connection
Facilitating the continuance
Of respective lives.
Weakness and strength
Symbiotically combine,
Acknowledged, accepted
And appreciated.
Nuanced silences,
Intensely stated truths, and
Deep intimacy
Time and love stand as barriers
Each are owed to others
And cannot be offered freely.
Still, what we share
Belongs only to us.
Secret, sweet darkness that
Cannot identify us in the light.
A sweetness captured
By passionate touch and
The earthy smells of loving
If not love.
“Never before” becomes the
Anthem of each discovery
As we map the hidden
Spaces in the recesses
Of the soul.
A being who touches
Those spaces is a gift
Even if questions arise to
Challenge the wisdom
Of continuing.
But wisdom is elusive.
It does not sit,
A heavy guardian,
But surrounds,
A mist…where echoes
And warnings drift
Quietly heard but unheeded
As we accept
The gift of each other.