"Inexplicable, In The Key Of C-Minor"

Soulmates aren't always precisely what you envision in the fairy tale sense, which is why it's ludicrous to think each of us only has one. :)

Thunder crashes, and I am struck by your touch,
Furtive and overwhelming and
Impossible to deny.
You are my once upon a time,
Memories of long ago
No amount of time and experience
Could possibly eviscerate.
I recall being shocked by your coldness,
The purity masquerading as passion,
Your fire an austerity that might never be touched;
A heart cast of marble,
Authoritarian and protective, always
By nature more father than lover,
More lover than friend,
But eternal soul mate, drawn to this incestuously
Inseparable conundrum.

You are my present,
Still reminding me of your ability
To pierce the core of my soul,
Demanding heat and violence and awakening, a pure energy
Reflected in a never-ending struggle for surrender.
I’ve never known anyone like you,
Nor do I imagine I am ever meant to, as
Some experiences can neither be duplicated
Nor abandoned.
You come to me, frozen, filled with your silent intensity,
As if you might absorb every vicarious emotion,
Create strains of something beautiful
Transcending our shared darkness;
Immortal, unforgiving, and thoroughly
Inexplicable.

You are my future,
Our unknown existing as mutually misplaced pieces
Occupying space on a giant chessboard;
Seemingly irrelevant,
Yet never disconnected.
The day we first met, it was the beginning;
The ascent that has no end, no false promises
Except illusions of grandeur,
Giving passion to immortality,
Immorality.

I walked through your life translucent,
Willing to idolize your power
As fervently as you worship my capacity
For intensity that defies anything conventional,
Explicable;
Crating experience and inspiration and memory,
Leaving us both merely empty shadows
Desperately needing something more,
Someone greater,
In which to believe.

Be still, my tormented love;
Some things are forever, and
Bonds of possession never broken.

~ October 18th, 2011

Author's Note

Criticism? What's that? :P

Reviews

[Distant horizons]

You are my once upon a time. Love that line, and the feeling of acceptance of what simply, is meant to be. Beautifully written.

[Michael G.]

I really enjoyed this piece. Well written... and the content and mood flowed through the poem very well.

And personally, I can say beyond a shadow of doubt, there are more than one
"soul mates" out there for each and every one of us.