Yearning

Would you believe a heart
as old as evolution
whose mother tongue was love,
never tasted it, even once?

generations of trauma from separation
armored up this child, even before
it could express this desire
with naked innocence.

Oh what a deep yearning gestates,
for a heart to go year after year
birth after birth, generation after generation
unmet in its most essential birthright!

This primordial longing of love
is the plight of humanity,
All of us hurt from this same wound
with our own strange stories of who and whence.

In my life today this painful human yearning
is taking the shape of you.

I yearn for you.
to be loved by you.
to be touched by your desire.
I yearn to know the small details
of your life, your body and inner-world
that only divine lovers find.

Today,
you are the black god
the dark goddess desires.

I want you in every way
a woman can want a man.
a goddess can want a god.

my heart has been prepared with
such earnestness.
Undefended, naked from all my ancient armor

For love has no protection.
And if rejection is what I receive
I will know it as divine redirection.

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Just as logic leads the mind, desire guides the soul. - Thomas Moore

Desire is the soul’s longing to move forward. - anodea Judith