I Need You To Hold Me Close

[atiguhya padma]

Like everyone I need someone to hold.
I could say: "Your eyes so bright, deep and dark
Like an inverted winter evening sky
Filled with infinity and mystery
There live whole worlds of wonder in your eyes
And they hold my gaze mesmerically
Your long black hair so dark and deep it flows
A mighty river running through my mind
It carries me into a world of dreams
That will never end in this pristine space
Held ever perfect in my inner eye."
And whilst all this is undoubtedly true
The only truth that consumes my soul is
This day I need you to just hold me close.

[Helga]

very good, and true I really like it

[Jay]

AP, you're reading my mind, only you put my thoughts in so much nicer words :), love the poem *keeps dreaming*

[atiguhya padma]

Helga, Jay.

Thanks for your appreciation.

Maybe there is something in everyone that can be loved. Whether it be a physical or a mental feature. Someone smiled at me on the weekend, with such a beautiful, delicate and fragile smile, that I was absorbed by her demeanour. Her eyes longed for some recognition of understanding. For that instance, a feeling of concern and protection swept over me. For a brief moment, I felt a kind of love for a complete stranger, a love that needed nowhere to go, no ground to nurture, no need for development, for possession. It was perfectly encapsulated by that moment in time, as beautiful as a spark in the darkness of the night; as brief as the life of a mayfly.

Maybe in all our wide variety of personality and physicality, there is always something that can be loved.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone.

[Jay]

That's so nice, AP :)