Lost to everything around me, rising in myself like vapour,
Listening to Purcell and reading
Neruda, thinking just about you, I could melt away like this,
Burned so sweetly by your love,
Speaking in many voices the day knocks at my closed doors:
But the hammer, the drill, the
Traffic noise, din around me, all seem to just play like drums
To the effervescent dance of my spirit
I will burn away like this, lighted in the fire of your love,
I will become one with the fragrance
Haunting the depths of existence; everything must become
Like mist to my ascending spirit as I
Burn away
Consumed by the fire of your love:
This will be the frankincense I light at the altar of love
Jul 3, 2012
Jul 3, 2012 at 11:53 AM UTC
Lost to everything around me, rising in myself like vapour,
Listening to Purcell and reading
Neruda, thinking just about you, I could melt away like this,
Burned so sweetly by your love,
Speaking in many voices the day knocks at my closed doors:
But the hammer, the drill, the
Traffic noise, din around me, all seem to just play like drums
To the effervescent dance of my spirit
I will burn away like this, lighted in the fire of your love,
I will become one with the fragrance
Haunting the depths of existence; everything must become
Like mist to my ascending spirit as I
Burn away
Consumed by the fire of your love:
This will be the frankincense I light at the altar of love
The inspiration for this poem came to the poet one day at work. In an open plan office, various sounds come to distract his attention, but they rather catalyze further, his absorption in his muse, the protagonist and the latter's love.
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