Live in me

[Ilya Shambat]

Live in me.
When I look at the sun I want to see it
Refracted through your eyes
Going around the veins in your retinas
Traversing the neuron in your brain
And creating perfect replicas of the signals they send
And the love they contain.
Live in me.
Something changed – something thought – something lasted
Beyond its allotted time
And I thought it was life
But I knew it was something a bit more substantial
And thousand times more lasting.
No I won’t tell you to silence your soul
To be less than the sight of divine harmony
To be more wholesome than nature
To not be a part of the One’s emanation and multiplicity
To not partake of the dialectic of life.
You have a figure that Sun embraces
And something within caresses with sight of eternity
Sight of transparency
Sight of magnificence
Sight of passion.
I try, how I try, to rise to you
And to put my shoulder to task
And to push with you
At the wheel of the bottomless well
Of creativity
To bring to air
The water that nurtures human spirit.
So I ask
To live with me
And be of me
And together rise into love.

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