Tuesday, August 3, 2010

“Love” (as if i knew)

So many half-people, scouring the earth,
searching for finger-quoted Love,
for a Better Half to make them whole.
For Band-aid Love to staunch the bleeding,
Prozac Love to offer blindfolds against the dark, rather
than barking shins on the coffee table Tableaus of wounded
youth as we stumble toward the light switch.
The secret is this, i don’t mind telling you:
a wounded heart cannot love freely,
and the best better half we can find out there
Is in here, the better half of our Selves.
Only when you are healed and whole can you love truly.
There is love that seems to make you whole
And then there is Love that proves you already were.
Seal them up, those cracks, those rends, those broken places—
Self-forgiveness makes good glue,
And solitude,
And courage.
And hurry please:
I’m tired of finger-quoting Love.

Darren Reiley
August, 2010

1 comment:

  1. hmmmmmmmm...
    If only love could be so easily contained
    Between the fingertips.
    Soft and smooth,
    Warm and fuzzy,
    Contained safely within our parameters.

    Soon enough it becomes clear that
    LOVE has no boundries.
    That it slips through our defenses,
    That it leaps over our fences.
    That it runs wild and free
    Through the fields and the trees
    As the wind tries to catch it,
    and the branches whisper it's name.

    A pinch, a touch, a slow caress.
    We watch our lovers slowly undress,
    Looking for evidence,
    Like the scene of a crime
    Do their eyes meet our gaze?
    Does their touch leave us dazed?
    Evaluate and appraise,
    What is worthy?

    Is He,
    Is She,
    Are We,
    Is it just ME?
    Do I trust ME?
    Who am I to say?

    Thirsty from the search for love,
    Trying to find the words for love,
    Surviving the worst from love,
    Mending the hurts from love,
    Finding the kindness in love,
    Stoking the fire with love,
    Feeling the desires of love,
    Throwing our hearts open wide to love.
    Invite it, and in will FLY the LOVE.

    Catch it if you can!!! It's EVERYWHERE!

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