Longing

You open and unravel your heart to me

In the dead of night I am sleeping and dreaming of you

Oceans away

And I do not know When the day will come That we meet

And your longings will be answered

But I feel the restless soul in you

And as I read the words

I long to touch your face

To see your eyes drinking in my soul

Something in me melts

But also recoils

You say I am your life

But what of your life?

If you become my life

And then I am yours

What happens when either life ends?

When either heart stops to beat?

Won’t life go on?

How will you live?

And then my father’s words come to me

Said to Mum Just before he died

Just remember Life goes on And life is for the living

But if the living are grieving then life energy will be stolen for a time

Taken so far underground

We feel ourselves to be buried

Useless to reason

When really the heart that truly loves is just designed to open

To beat To absorb into itself The other who is not self

But feels so much like The lost part of self

Are we actually two selves my darling?

Or one self?

Twin flames

Once split apart from one spark

Into two fragments

On a long journey

Of finally finding our way back home

To each other?