22

Everything happens for a reason. Serendipity,coincidence or whatever you call it, life blows its surprises unexpectedly. I have been encountering 22 several times a day for more than a month now and I can't help but think of the life I had in 2009.....this one's for you....

 

 

22

 

 

When powerful wings of love seize you

 

Resist not though its horns pierce you through

 

And when it promises you a life of eternity

 

Believe though you kneel tattered in uncertainty.

 

For when it summons the bravest of your intentions

 

So shall be born the grandest of all your illusions

 

For when love delights your eyes and edifies you

 

So shall it become the arrow that betrays you.

 

From among the throng of faces it chooses you

 

Its rudder shall define and embody you

 

Love will pummel you 'til you are both gentle and strong

 

It'll crown you with blood 'til you are broken and sifts your wrong.

 

...And if you slumber and spurn when your heart sings,

 

Your existence unfolds only a speck of your being

 

Because if you only long for love's ease and rapture

 

Hide your face then for its thrashings you will not endure

 

For love discloses not of beauty and wit

 

But of soul's nakedness bereft of deceit

 

Of love be known and its words be true

 

May they fill every fiber of your being through and through.

-cro (March 7-22, 2011)

 

Photography and poetry: ©crozahirah

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