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Tag: desire

  • Love Isn’t What The Words Say

    Steve Toth

    We circle the sky like two birds
    who fell out of their nests together
    & now are lighter than air
    Watch what you long for burn you
    I thought I was well done
    but next to you
    I’m just a raw soul
    You satisfy my longing
    as nothing else can do
    If work is a form of worship
    we work together well

    When I was lost & broke
    you found me & made me whole
    When I was shut closed
    you unlocked me & opened my passageways
    I close my eyes with a deep breath
    to concentrate on feeling everything you touch
    but they only fly open
    to lie on you a spell
    I smell you all over me
    My one desire is to breathe with you
    until the day I die

    Words are bubbles
    breaking on the surface
    of silence
    Words are the tools of ignorance
    Remember the love songs we sang
    long before we knew any words for language?
    Take every bit of my love my love
    I’m just happy to see you making it a paradise
    Love isn’t what the words say
    What of it?
    Go on singing

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  • Nirvana

     

    Mathilde Blind

    DIVEST thyself, O Soul, of vain desire!
    Bid hope farewell, dismiss all coward fears;
    Take leave of empty laughter, emptier tears,
    And quench, for ever quench, the wasting fire
    Wherein this heart, as in a funeral pyre,
    Aye burns, yet is consumed not. Years on years
    Moaning with memories in thy maddened ears–
    Let at thy word, like refluent waves, retire.

    Enter thy soul’s vast realm as Sovereign Lord,
    And, like that angel with the flaming sword,
    Wave off life’s clinging hands. Then chains will fall
    From the poor slave of self’s hard tyranny–
    And Thou, a ripple rounded by the sea,
    In rapture lost be lapped within the All.

     

  • Ah! Sunflower

     

    William Blake

    Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
    Who countest the steps of the Sun:
    Seeking after that sweet golden clime
    Where the travellers journey is done.

    Where the Youth pined away with desire,
    And the pale virgin shrouded in snow:
    Arise from their graves and aspire,
    Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.