Two Paths

My first love and I met again recently after many years on separate paths.

Sometime in the past in my youth and innocence, my path converged with a young man

 

We walked side by side for a time…….Talking, laughing, learning

Until eventually our two paths became as one path

Where our hearts melded as we shared our thoughts and experienced the magic of love and loving

Our path eventually diverged, unexpectedly torn in different directions

Blocked by hurt, pride and pain so great that return seemed impossible.

Mysteriously, though, our separate paths quietly continued in unseen parallel.

Our thoughts: my memory of trust and goodness; his memories of loves 1^st pleasure and pain

Meandered in and out of the unseen universe as I prayed and he dreamed

Connecting us along life’s corridors in ways we did not….could not see

And then our paths converged again, merging out of the unseen into open parallel.

So now we travel on, once again learning about who we are.

Our lives, long separated, united again with a new kind of oneness.

Two lives so very different, but still connected in inexplicable ways.

How sweet to have this chance to walk side by side again

Learning to see the importance of our long unseen parallel journey

And facing life’s course ahead with new wisdom and strength born of two lives now joined again

For some as yet unknown reason held in the unseen path before us.

For Mark ............................summer 2010