They felt it in the love
of unity,
and all the world came
alive again.
That love they needed
to survive
the misery of systems
cast on them.
Ah, but when they tried
to shape it,
more than just two worlds
collided.
As the mysteries of love
revived
the dreams they'd learned
to hold
so deep inside.
Love was so much more than
just
another fifties fantasy.
The peace
they sought could not
be bought
in a convenience store.
They needed so much more
than all their money could
provide.
To take to flight within
the skies
within a trust that held
its roots
through all eternity.
Loving was
the only mattered answer
- meaning
flying in the winds that
never passed
the walls they lived within.
A kind of love that dwelt
above
man's need of endless
seeds.
Complexity unraveling,
the feelings stole into
their hearts.
The spirit of the earth
engaged
a feeling of the deepest
trust of all.
The fall could never tame
the lust
men felt. The iron ore
was melted
in the furnace of their
great machinery.
The industrial age had
come to a stage
of no more than just another
exchange,
lacking meaning. Machinery
that did
the work while all their
intellects still
still sought the dream
still sleeping.
Denial spread through
their imaginings.
A candle flared. How deep
its glare.
How wide the rage they
never had
transcended.
And then it ended. The
power of control
unhinged by just a gentle
motion in the tide.
Tenderness remembered.
That which
never could be tendered
opened into everything
that is.
Their staid and static
lives upended -
the futures of their futures
growth
suspended over wishing
wells.
The power of their focus
gained
in memory of remnants
beyond pain.
Oh, to feel the love again,
at last...
? Michaelette ?
5/26/2003
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