desire

Love Isn’t What The Words Say

Gill Washington Love, Poems, Spirituality, Steve Toth , , , , 0 Comment

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

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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.