A Very Special Pedestal Poem by Shirley Harrison

If true love has such spiritual dimension
then I trust that someday it will find me

and as I wait
I ask myself
all the questions sitting
impatiently on my mind

reflecting on…

courtly love
forbidden love
self-love
storge love

and of course
divine love

those so deeply in love?

for example...
Romeo and Juliet

knowing such intimacy exists

yet never to bring them
to their union
a love
forbidden by others

knowing
it was to lead them
to a death of a sinister kind

they did it anyway
because they were in fact soulmates

thus, finding love
living happily ever after
isn't just a myth
to those whom have experienced
such love?

I myself do believe

after all
surely
even just to experience
that spiritual dimension
for one single moment whilst I breath

makes the loss so much less painful

eternally giving it
a very special pedestal.