D.Greaves http://dgreaves.posterous.com Well Veresed. Never Rehearsed. posterous.com Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:26:00 -0700 MYTHOLOGICAL LOVE http://dgreaves.posterous.com/mythological-love http://dgreaves.posterous.com/mythological-love

Love1

we have nothing left to fight for

nothing left to gain

on a shoal so barren and isolated

only tears in heaven drain

 

i  genuflect in your presence

forever you will be my ethiopian queen

exalted by the constellations

while traversing the summer solstice

in a palanquin

 

an isolated and intense emotion

never will i deny

amazing how the rains fall

upon the plains of the srengeti

each and everytime you cry

 

i see you in graceful motion

that beatific smile as you pirouette

the days bathed in sunshine  we remember

the hurricane of conflicting  emotions

we refuse to soon forget

 

and when kintu lived alone upon this earth quite lonely

nambi the daughter of gulu came to the earth 

and fell in love with him

and though gulu the ruler of sky 

thought kintu too poor and ignorant

the bond of kintu and nambi 

eased the heavenly fathers trepidation

and now the saharan winds

sing a hymn

of everlasting love

 

are  there any valid reasons

the sane dive into a malestrom of love

and its unpredictability

ironic how we know more of the stars

in the heavens

than the ever changing tides of love 

upon this earths restless and stormy seas

 

rest your head my lovely

this too shall come to pass

ignore our loves burning embers

concentrate instead upon the timeless devotion

we sought  while racing against the desert sands

in the hourglass

 

exalted you will remain

the court waits in breathless anticipation

while you summon the vestal virgins

to consumate the intensity of your

feelings of frustration

 

and when alcmene

the mother of hercules

mated with zeus who was wearing a perfect disguise

thinking she had finally found

the perfect mate

they made love to a celestial serenade of perfect harmony

yet unknowingly she became victim of a hegemony

a cultural  imperialism

from which her soul would never escape

 

the salt of our tears form twin pillars

that pantomime

you the solo dancer

i the narrative chorus

beseeching the devine

 

our movements  once so expressive

now our steps defined by a certain nervousness

in the shadows of the theater

i see you and i as we pantomime  one last kiss

 

the rain falls upon all that our love justified

soothing two souls scorched by fates denial

i stand  before the angels 

feeling very much like socrates

preparing to face my final trial

 

no intimate  intrusions

we kept our love secret until the end

no need to turn back and face 

sodom and gomorrah

we end as spiritual lovers 

yet forever remain everlasting friends

 

and when aphrodite

the goddess of beauty 

love and pleasure 

sought the erotic pleasures

of adonis she refused to release him

from her intimacy

in love she was totally

and though ares

in a jealous rage disguised as a boar 

killed adonis

the ashes of a love so  innocent and completely honest

have been scattered upon the confluence

of the tigris and euphrates

while the jealousy of ares burns in hades

the bottomless pits of hell

 

when i speak to you

i sense a sorrow

but our love should not be mourned

from the dust of an edenic paradise

our expectation of love was formed

 

so smile for all of the great times

the laughter and the freedom

never did we not submit what was owed to ceasar

never like judas did we commit a love treason

 

the morning skies awaken

parting to release the warmth

you and i will forever share

so strong we were as solo  artists

quite indomitable as a pair

 

as i meditate i kiss the heavens

for all you have meant to me

for sharing a love far beyond all earthly boundaries

a love to be forever spoken in mythology

 

and when  ohsun

the orisha of love

beauty and  intimacy

feels the slightest  animosity

though kind she will cause  destruction

wherever she decides to go

only shango the king dancer

undergod  of lightning and thunder

can quell ohsuns anger

and allow her soul to escape into the throes

of an everlasting love

 

you and i 

a confluence of a shared astrological

yes we did the impossible

so many thought our love illogical

now forevermore we will be honored

in the mythological

as two people who once defined

 the meaning of true love

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