Within our hopes and dreams
Written By Dean Masciarelli
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Within our hopes and dreams
There is that one special person
That is out there
That can reawaken
The passion from within
But it just cant
be with anyone
Because it will take
A very special person
To reignite the flames of passion
So that the desires of our hearts
Can finally be complete and whole again
Take my life, O Lord, but don't take
"My Life". Delete not my knowledge, my
memories--let not darkness, that moonless
landscape of Nothing reign sovereign.
Remember how you decorated
our skies with constellations and scepters,
with scintillations of crystal and smoke.
Leave me those I loved, and who loved
me in this barely discernible dimension
we lived in: time and space believed-in
absolutely, gloriously, in creation of sons,
soul-mates who found us desirable
above others. Thank you for the passion
of the bed, the passion of the breath--
how we knew you before you knew us,
before you fashioned us through
the coupling of the chosen, Heaven,
our voyeur, our vision of confirmation,
our co-creator with the lips and loins
that in circuity, sweat, and heat
of pairing brought us back
to your presence: Blessed be
your Holy Name.
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