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Gitanjali *
( After Rabindranath Tagore )
For the life is in the blood.**
From an early age, I'd an aversion to blood-
pooling plates from the rarity of steaks;
tinged lips bathing in the carmine river
of conquered meat between teeth
By teenage years, I understood blood;
it struck chords within my solar plexus—
a many-pointed star of immense knowledge
resonating amid a lost recollection of Love
Nothing ever dies: it survives in crawlspaces
of life, beneath the skin of each birth;
its ichor passed down from generations—
awakening within the proximity of itself
We do not choose those we truly love—
only what we receive from each offering;
we celebrate a reunion of joy—
or, suffer the agony of letting go
Walk onward in this world. . .
yet, such recalls are not only human
They're loyalty between a bear and wolf—
unlikely pairs whose alliance is forged
by unexplainable phenomenon beyond
our homo sapient reasoning: bonding
between a kitten and duck; a dog and fox—
because the soul knows what a mind forgets;
blood is the life, the mechanism of flesh
fueling every sentient being on earth
It is no mystery to preceive one another
after death; your sub-conscious waits
rather than settles for less; it's innate—
instinctual when honed by life after life
and could never be explained in words—
only felt within its vast array of cells;
those immortal red and white messengers
carrying eternal scrolls of ancestors—
crusades of experience and Love
registered in our own blood
each time one rediscovers the other
wearing whatever chosen form
~
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