Saturday, February 13, 2016

Coalescence (Poetry by Bob Racine)



A Valentine’s gift for longtime lovers

Heart and mind, they say,
the regions where love must flourish,
so often at odds, the weighty intellect
no match for the runaway passion or
the surfeit of sentiment.

Have we not, my love,
brought them together?
 
We could never recall
the day it dawned on us
that we were inseparable,
when infatuation and curiosity
knuckled under to the sterner stuff
of which we were made.

And would we want to,
with so many present moments
bursting before us
like new quasars?  

Perhaps love’s inception
was the refusal of our
thoughts and emotions to live
in dichotomy with each other.
We have forced them to conspire,
to plot, to play and pretend,
even to scuffle.

They have laid traps for each other,
as they are wont to do, but now,
decades along our journey together
we have outsmarted the wiliest
of their contrivances.

It is now enough that they coexist in the
symbiotic comfort of our affections. 

We have nothing more to prove to each other,
only the bounty of head and heart to nourish
our un-forsake-able nest.

Here’s loving you this way forever –
head, heart, body and soul, the supreme
coalescence!


To read other entries in my blog, please consult its website:  enspiritus.blogspot.com. To learn about me consult on the website the blog entry for August 9, 2013.

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