Where We Become One, After Antjie Krog In Waar Ik Jou Word Poem by Ravi Kopra

You let out the cry
Oh my, my...
And I catch fire.

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1.

Looking for love I cross
the seven oceans and come to you

I hear your shivering blue
call in the folds of the dark
night and I stand before you
blindly bound my radiant bones

Your dark brown eyes peer into mine
Your long brown scented tresses
fall on my shoulders as we
greet each other in a loving hug

You drop your guard and I
step back letting my self
unbind the I in me, the
inseparable, the inviolable I

Bonds break step by step
separating myself from self
they unfold like the petals
of a unsundered rose revealing

in the hidden layers its beauty
yet to unfold to show its essence
for you to feel my innermost self

I lay bare my heart open to you
for you to listen how deeply
it grieves the absences of love
felt in the marrow of its bones.

-to be continued