Thursday, February 12, 2004

#209....on nearing valentine's day

one can never get enough Love poetry..

                    

It seems to me, to myself, that no man
was ever before to any woman
what you are to me - the fullness
must be in proportion, you know,
to the vacancy....

and only I know what was
behind - the long wilderness
without the blossoming rose...
and the capacity for happiness,
like a black gaping hole, before
this silver flooding. 

It is wonderful
that I should stand as in a
dream, and disbelieve - not you -
but my own fate?

Was ever anyone taken so suddenly
from a lampless dungeon and
placed upon the pinnacle of a
mountain; without the head
                turning round and the heart
                          turning faint, as mine do?

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

                         

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Talk about one big exhale...=D