Gaze

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We gazed into the sacred mirror, 
that otherness of eyes.
I breathed you into my chest 
yet didn't keep you there. 
I let you go, but first 
I let you roam through secret 
candlelit chambers.
I offered you the cup of my 
aloneness.
Breathing you out, 
I did not abandon you.
I walked you to your own
soul door
in the mansion of love
where I see you in
every window.
You change the rhythm 
of my heart.
Even now, an ocean apart,
we are dancing.
Ascend to another star,
we are dancing.
Return to the lost kiss
where our birthless beams
were one transparency,
we are still dancing.

Painting: Edward Burne-Jones

Comments

Anonymous said…
What a breathtakingly beautiful poem. I hesitate to post my pedestrian comment below it – but it’s what I have. As a young man, with a woman who was, and remains my soulmate, I shared the incredible experience of touching her soul and allowing her to touch mine. I have never done so before or since. One warm fall day, we spread a blanket on a grassy meadow, and we lay, locking eyes, for the better part of an hour. The gaze. That is what these verses speak to. Tragically, as might be expected when one hands a priceless Ming vase to a toddler, I destroyed this thing of transcendent beauty with my carelessness. But now – a lifetime later and a metaphoric ocean apart – still we dance…..
8/21/2025 2:52 PM
Anonymous said…
What a breathtakingly beautiful poem. I hesitate to post my pedestrian comment below it – but it’s what I have. As a young man, with a woman who was, and remains my soulmate, I shared the incredible experience of touching her soul and allowing her to touch mine. I have never done so before or since. One warm fall day, we spread a blanket on a grassy meadow, and we lay, locking eyes, for the better part of an hour. The gaze. That is what these verses speak to. Tragically, as might be expected when one hands a priceless Ming vase to a toddler, I destroyed this thing of transcendent beauty with my carelessness. But now – a lifetime later and a metaphoric ocean apart – still we dance…..
8/21/2025 2:52 PM
AKL said…
Your words give meaning to my evening and my night! Thank you so much!
8/21/2025 4:58 PM
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