
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Somewhere I have never travelled,
Gladly beyond any experience,
Your eyes have their silence:
In your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
Or which I cannot touch because they are too near
Your slightest look easily will unclose me
Though I have closed myself as fingers,
You open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose.
Or if your wish be to close me,
I and my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
As when the heart of this flower imagines
The snow carefully everywhere descending;
Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
The power of your intense fragility: whose texture
Compels me with the colour of its countries,
Rendering death and forever with each breathing
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
And opens; Only something in me understands
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
E. E. Cummings
The first time I loved forever
Was when you whispered my name
And I knew at once you loved me
For the me of who I am..
The first time I loved forever
I cast all else aside
And I bid my heart to follow
Be there no more need to hide..
And if wishes and dreams are merely for children
And if love's a tale for fools
I'll live the dream with you..
For all my life and forever
There's a truth I will always know
When my world divides and shatters
Your love is where I'll go...
Rants and observations and musings about faith, hope as well as life and love.
©2008 THOUGHTSKOTO
i love this song, too. i have the mp3 of the female vocals, plus the male reading some lines from the poem (from the 90's TV series 'beauty and the beast').
ReplyDeletemimi
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i like the song and the poem.
ReplyDeleteHappy Heart's Day!