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Cantos of Love

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("Red Skin", 2023, original encaustic)

Cantos of Love

Was it ever here at all…

Faces, eyes, lips, breasts and thighs
Parade through memory
Fading, fading fast
As years advance.

Maybe these closets 
Need more juice to unlock
Than these old bones hold.

Funny about memories
We think they're all ours
But what if it takes two
To unlock what was made together
And so they, as much from disuse 
As from a privacy withheld from afar,
Blend and blur into mere approximations.

So in dreams
Who is it we meet if not our own Self
Shared with others to the extent we can 
In so many masks
And who is it we continue to play the parts of
If not those who haunt us with unfinished business.

Thus the need for release
Of all we love and hold
All we’ve ever held in love
And ever rejected in fear 
Release for the sake of memory of self and other
For the sake of Life
For the sake of Love.

I
As it moves along
Purifying as it goes
Refreshingly flows

II
Celebrating bliss
Of lifetimes culminations
In this mere caress

III
Endless river flows
Within us and without us
Whether known or not

IV
This love knows no bounds
Words and thoughts can't hold it in
So it is release

V
Beyond our control
The seasons pass like clockwork
Blossoms become fruit

VI
So where did it go
Was it ever here at all
This love on the breeze

(11/7/23)

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