Living the Challenge: Writing AND SHARING A Love Poem

Ever since I was 19 years old I have considered myself a poet. I suspect that the talent was there before that, but I had never nurtured it. My parents always urged me to "get a real job," and discouraged the idea of being an artist of any kind as my main career path. But after an eye opening incident occurred when I was 19 that abruptly woke me up to how dead I actually was in my life, I started to express myself in all manner of ways that I had never even dreamed of before, including writing poetry!

For 12 years now, I have harnessed and nurtured the poet and the writer in me, but just recently I realized that I have pretty much steered clear of writing any kind of love poems. I've been afraid to put my heart out there for others to see, but what I hadn't considered was the difference it could make...not just for me but for others. So with the challenge Gareth posed yesterday, I decided I would SHARE MY FIRST LOVE POEM. Here goes...

The Body Between Us

Flowing from no thing

A spring of creation

Washing up around me

Saturating my cells in pure elation

I thought I missed you and

longed to be with you

But there is no such thing

Only denial of the you in me

Having forgotten I too can sing

Playing hide and seek with judgmental youth

I wonder if we ever really existed

Where does the dream go

When I awake to my own impersistence

In the Greatest Scheme of things

It is only with some distance that we get a real High view

Along the journey to the mountain's top

with each bold step, the world looks perfect and new

So I travel beyond

the comfort zone I found in you

Falling in love with Love itself

Discovering the seeds of Freedom within

Giving them room to shed their skin and take root.

Sometimes what there is to do

Is look forward to the past that comes with reality

Showing us the Constant Choice

"out there" or into me see

August 2011

VM