FREE TO LOVE
Here is the rub, here is the paradox; that is, to love
With the most freedom and that is this: to let each
Other go, for holding and keeping comes too easy.
Sometime to love means to be alone as the artist in
The creation of his work needs that gestation; for
Women this means to gather the beauty within them.
Inconspicuously, we gather our self up as one would
Gather up and fold a flag on any dull and ordinary
Workday. It is this quietude that love gathers momentum.
Long term work even with overtime remains undone and
This is both the labour of love and the need for love to ever
Be a work-in-process. Love and labour is the work we do.
We all raise our blood to an extended work and sometimes
We can neither hold our love nor our work to the level we
Would like but this is the mystery of individuation and unity.
Elegiacally, love is never finished not should a requiem ever
Be given; for, in the extended work it transcends both this life
And the grave and for this we can all understand Withering Heights.
For in such a love, the terror of the separation of love does not apply.
How can death tear what went on before as if our love only existed
In a portion of eternity and that we did not know eternal natures.
Now, therefore, wander freely as a child as if no harm could come
To you knowing that love primordial exists without harness nor
Restraint and that love given freely never measures nor gauges cost.