What is This Thing, Love?

5 April 2011

What is this thing, love?

  From whence does it come?
  It appears, unbidden,
  yet refuses to show its face upon petition.

Never simple, never what was imagined.

  Rich beyond recognition,
  calling forth the light and the dark deep in our souls.

Penetrating every cell of our being;

  exciting physical passion;
  releasing tender compassion;
  inspiring exquisite understanding.

No, not a simple encounter.

  An invitation into
  exploration of the universe inside one's self
  through the dance with another.

To the courageous warrior does it beckon,

  for it doesn't come laced in the frill and fairy dust
  we so innocently overlay on it during those first lustful moments.

It comes in full force,

  to expose all that lies within;
  to challenge the hurts, the anger, the mis-perceptions;
  to ask us to rise above our past, our bodies, our expectations;

to glimpse the eternal, the ever-changing and unmoving force
  of life,
  of creation.

Dare we?

In those exquisitely beautiful eyes breathes the All that is;

  and in love, it invites us in...