I want so much
To try something new
To forge a different path
Together, with you
An unbeaten track
Made of hopes that last
But we can't be new
If we can't shed our past

And you hang our past
Round my neck like a noose
One I'll never escape
If you can't let it loose
I carry these past cycles
Like a stone-made crown
And the sheer weight of it
Is what brings me down

I know you have real fears
Please know I do too
But to let them mislead us
Is to taint what is true
Please give me the chance
To show you I'm more
Than the patterns of old
that have all come before

For if one thing is constant
As we growth through our strife
It's that you, without question
Are the Love of my Life

As my Love takes flight
On this chilled Autumn night
Across Mountains and Trees
Against this Northerly breeze
I beseech The Great Mother
Wrap My Love in the Cover
of Divine Safekeeping

along our own paths at soul junction we met
We forged a new route through the wild dark and wet
an unbeaten track on all sides beset
by the demons of dogma & imposed regret
Crowned by the naysayers who spat hate and fear
Their secret envy grew as our paradise drew near

In futures yet unclaimed
the now unmanifest
Side by side
We looked back on our journey
and We laughed
and We wept

It's fading, I feel it and I know you do too
Honey-Sweet memories
now showing the washed out grey
of times decay
that love drunk buzz
So prominent for a time
Now sobering up as our paths re-align
the mind and heart Shift from
our once shared colour-drenched dream
To the monochromatic 2-dimensional blandness of being realistic

we knew it would come
we knew it would go
and no amount of Awareness
can soften the blow

The curse of our conscious bond
is that we can't wrap ourselves
in the comforting blanket
of numbed ignorance
As others might
In the missing of Cold Nights

we knew it would come
we knew it would go
and no amount of Acceptance
can soften the blow

We have our distractions to keep
our Minds occupied and
the Midnight-Blue pining at bay
we preach trust in the Universal plan
And we mantra "come what may"
Yet the insatiable and inescapable void of hollow pervades
as our unity on the horizon
fades to grey

we knew it would come
we knew it would go
and no amount of Understanding
can soften the blow

Eros himself took one look at you
He smiled & at once knew, no more he could do
He surmised that his arrow would just go to waste
On a woman of such impeccable Beauty and taste
To paint Love on your smile would be utterly useless
And attempts to teach your being of Love would be fruitless

This God of Love recognised what I have known from the start
That there's no greater capacity for Love
than in Your magnanimous human heart
The embodiment of Love is what, in You, he saw
The Avatar of One Love so powerful and raw

What caught him off-guard and took him by surprise
Was seeing the familiar in the Nebula of your eyes
Without doubt an incarnation of his Goddess mother
Aphrodite reborn in humanity's finest Lover
But even the Gods blush when in Love you ARE
From the Brilliance of your Aura that burns bright as a star
A heat from deep within Self that radiates wide and far

You are truly in Love and you deserve to be
Adored & Celebrated on high for all eternity
for nothing comes close to the Love You create
even Gaia's heart swells as she breathes and pulsates

Lifetimes I'll spend showing you
as often as I can
This humble twin Soul man
Will never stop Loving
his strawberry Moon Jan