I Want To Write A Poem For You

I wrote this poem after the training weekend of Sexualty and Spirituality at the Institute of Psychosynthesis. It was a powerful experience that percolated within me for months after. The poem is an effor to capture that spark of inspiration, the moment of being moved, the feeling of bittersweetness. It’s about joy, about loss. It’s about sorrow, about solace.

I want to write a poem for you

Like Leonard for Marianne

To sing for your beauty and your wisdom

I blink…

And blush with shame

You are not my lover!

Are you…not?

What is it if not Love?

In your gaze, I leap towards wonder, meaning and transcendence

In your embrace, a forlorn trance

 Defiantly afresh

A sorrowing whisper, Bon Voyage

In this silence, deep and wide

A bigger ending unfolds