In Search Of You Poem by Roula Pollard

The scent of the sea travels with me from birth
countless places I've discovered,
people I yearned to meet in time, I did meet
but when I touch you,
a voice like the creation of all beings
awakens from the earth,
like a house opening its windows to the sun
nearing hope and love
between sound and silence
I am there.
But when silence cries into a lonely heart
when hunger and destruction afflicts the world,
when love is absent… I know the place
I discover what hurts
I understand the cause of pain.

When luck, dressed with sadness, changes direction,
when a voiceless expectation leaves a person
lying on life's beach exhausted, like a swollen whale…

I am there with you.
So, stay with me tonight, like an unfinished story,
touch me again like a galloping horse,
cover me with morning dew,
draw with your lips a rainbow on my heart.
Brighten my shadowy valleys with your sunlight.
My sleep awakens with your rays.
Travel with my body through your continent of love,
and the intense flame of your eyes.
Narrate the journey of passion to my soul!
Touch me, till darkness exhausts itself.
Chronicle the story of our existence,
the reason for our genesis, our heart's emotions explain
to relate to our descendants
As the cosmic entrance of understanding opens,
As love gives birth to deep, deep blue
the Aegean gives me a human face.

© Roula Pollard