Mo's Manic Monday - Want
Posted: Monday, March 03, 2008 by Travis Cody in
Welcome to another Manic Monday with Morgen. Don't forget to cruise by MM HQ at It's A Blog Eat Blog World. Today's theme is Want.
Want: to be lacking or absent, as a part or thing necessary to completeness
One can be unaware that one wants. One can be unaware that something is absent. I was such a one, until a day in May 2006. Once the lack became clear, I had to fill it.
A Day Passes Unremarked
by Travis Cody
A day passes unremarked, and yet a flower blooms.
Night beckons, and a solitary man will search his soul.
As sun yields to moon, so his heart yearns toward her,
Unexpected moment, wielding the most profound power.
He is animated again, awake and alive as a crystal aria,
Frail and barely audible, a melody of infinite peace
Piercing a life filled with doubt and anger, casting fear
Aside as a lingering presence fades with unshed tears.
Desire humbles, laying bare the prison of his mind.
A quiescent warning whispered in his ear, old wound
From another age when a soft bright smile stole his passion,
Leaving him an uncertain shell of bitter loneliness and pain.
Married to this malicious memory is his mind, closed to hope,
Prey to false remembrance; casting himself as victim.
Yet now to wonder, and to let time assuage melancholy spirit
With a golden spring, unlooked for and treasured as a gift.
Slowly discarded the recollection of that instant
When reckoned love became fractured and corrupt.
The pieces of his heart, once scattered and dead to light,
Respond now to a sun rising in the depths of her eyes.
Night passes, and a solitary man emerges from the cold
To truly love for the first time; to feel possibilities in her kiss,
And to catch the sweet sound of her laughter in his ears,
Precious and savored, like the welcome release of unabashed tears.
Want: to feel a need or a desire for
There comes a moment in a relationship when the desire to give to each other is overwhelming. It becomes a wonderful ache...a craving to share an intimacy that makes two melt into one.
At This Moment
By Travis Cody
At this moment I am alive
Her smile brings respite
From the long lonely night
At this moment I am warm
Her touch deepening the love
Reflected in my eyes
At this moment I am free
As our passions quicken
Entwined in a charmed embrace
At this moment I am joy
As the sum of our desire ignites
Like fire on arid grass
At this moment I am tranquil
Bathed in the afterglow
Of life, warmth, freedom, and joy
At this moment I am serene
Safe in the sweet tender mercy
Of a timeless love
Hey! Linking over from Roger. Your Manic Monday is interesting but I'M loving the post about your cat. I am JEALOUS of your clingy cat - mine loves only my husband! Jennifer