The Stars, The Lovers, The Ocean Poem by Mona Lisa Aspiras

The waves splash gently across the shore.
The moon shines softly on the water,
Caressing the waves.
Lovers' delight.
They stare out onto the horizon.
A soft breeze tousles her hair
He looks at her and cries.
Caresses her hair.
They kiss.
It's pitch-black.
The stars sing out from above.
They shower their blessings.
"It's ecstasy! "
But they don't fumble for each other.
They continue to to look into each other's eyes.
He repeats the process.
Caresses her hair.
She moves ever so slightly.
Her neck tilted like a doe's head
His hand moves down her neck
Fingers tracing the silhouette
Delighting in skin.
It's too soft.
It's fragile.
He can't do anything.
He whispers to her the unimaginable:
"You embody my perfect, ideal girl."
She is in 7th heaven.
And he too.
Both for the same and different reasons.
They smile at each other.
Their souls dance a million dances.
The dance of love.
The dance of life.
Once more, the stars sing out.
The lovers dance to the stars' song.

She gently falls asleep.
He looks at her, slowly.
Amazed.
Longingly.
She sits by his side,
But he takes her head slowly
And places it on his lap.
He just stares at her.
His heart beats
One with the Universe.

He doesn't know what to do.
He is just stupefied.
Frozen.
He doesn't know what to do.
Whether to cry.
To laugh.
To shout.
He is full
Like an empty vessel
Filled by God.
He looks up.
Smells the air.
Smells of the ocean.
Smells musty and sensual
Smells of life.
Here he is
In nature with his loved one!

He falls asleep.

God touches his eyelids.

He dreams of faraway places.
The childhood memories.
The dragons he wanted to slay.
The bullies he wanted to befriend.
The girls he wanted to prove...

A song beckons to him through the fog
It is his lover's voice calling out to him.
"Where are you? "
He was lost!
Lost in the maze of his past.
God showed him his present.
He belonged with his lover now.
The past was the past.

He found himself in pitch-black darkness.
The darkness of sleep.
It was a dreamless sleep.
This was his future.
Would he make the same mistakes
This time?
With his new-found love?