Meeting of Souls

February 28, 2007 at 7:36 pm · Filed under poems of hope

Meet me.

I am infinity.

In me are depths even I haven’t plumbed.

Let’s take a dive together,

blindness is such a misunderstood gift,

let’s discover the unknown.

we have too much “knowledge”

put limits on the unknowable too quickly.

What I want is to go beyond the physical,

beyond that which comes to men and women too easily,

I want to plumb the depths of your soul,

I want you to dive into mine too.

Discover me.

Too much conflict has been put onto that terrible word- ‘love’,

It contains too much ritual,

a holding and tugging at images of ourselves.

I don’t want to use it,

I want to use other words instead,

words that have not yet been overused.

I prefer to say- know me.

Take courage and dive into the abyss,

there you shall find,

not the meaningless drizzle of ‘love’,

but an ocean of life.

You will find the authentic experience

an enveloping, nurturing and warming togetherness

safe from the narrow confines of “normal” human experience.

That is what I seek,

not a relationship,

not a love tryst

not any of these things we have categorised so well,

but a true meeting of the souls.

an unpublished poem by Mary Kimani, dated October 23 2004.

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