This is for all those men and women I know who have known the call of the Beloved – compelled to seek soul mates, twin flames, the True One, The One…..whatever your name for that, and struggling with the longing and the knowledge of an amazing kind of love.
Where You Once Were
Torn and tangled shreds of my heart
From where you once were –
when we were still one.
Tree-branch hands
Brittle and twisted
Thrashing in the wind
Reaching into the void
Beyond myself and all I’ve tried to be.
Crying out in anguish
Longing for your return.
No matter how hard I try –
Pretending courage and strength
Independence and self-sufficiency –
In your absence,
I’m always less than one.
Knowing and feeling you as
the missing parts of my soul.
And no matter where I am grasping,
My hands returning empty…
Like the place in my heart
Where you once were.
