the love that exceeds, reprise

Sometimes

I think about something I wrote 

a month,

a year

a hundred years

ago, 

and I think:

somethings just don't change;

that's still what I think

and feel 

today.

The following is an entry I wrote

16 October 2010 --

and it is an important one for me.

I wanted to revisit it today.

Thanks for revisiting it with me.

(Sounio, south of Athens, Greece

photo by Makropoulos)

When we love

      with a love

                 that exceeds

our expectations of love,

we ignite a fire

in our being

that unites with

the infinite, 

and

the penetrating

incapacitating

                     power of the All

is engendered there.

(also at Sounio,

photo by Makropoulos)

Incapacitating

                it is

because it erases

our

mortal individuality

and implicates us

in a nameless

immortality.

(The human

and all that it imagines 

and comprehends,

even of love,

has boundaries -----

the temporal frame

of earth 

and life and death

and the portrait of

                  our living

that that frame embraces---

is our lives

is our lives.

(pebbles through water 

off a beach

in Kythnos, Greece

photo by Makropoulos)

That frame,

the only portal

at our disposal

that gives us acccess

to the beyond

is the subtle,             

delicate

heart

                             so inextricably wedded

to mind

and the melody

                           plucked on the strings

      that bind

them

is the song of our love

seducing us to love

beyond our limits.

When we love

      with a love

                 that exceeds

our expectations of love,

we ignite a fire

in our being

that unites with

the infinite,

the penetrating

incapacitating

                     power of the All

is engendered there.