<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389897" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Middle Aged Lovers, I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unable to bear<br>the uncertainty<br>of the future,<br>we consulted seers,<br>mediums, stock market gurus,<br>psychics who promised<br>happiness on this<br>or another planet,<br>astrologists of love,<br>seekers of the Holy Grail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Looking for certainty<br>we asked for promises,<br>lover's knots, pledges, rings,<br>certificates, deeds of ownership,<br>when it was always enough<br>to let your hand<br>pass over my body,<br>your eyes find the depths of my own,<br>and the wind pass over our faces<br>as it will pass<br>through our bones,<br>sooner than we think.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The current is love,<br>is poetry,<br>the blood beat<br>in the thighs,<br>the electrical charge<br>in the brain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our long leap<br>into the unknown<br>began nearly<br>a half century ago<br>and is almost<br>over.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think of the<br>amphorae of stored honey<br>at Paestum<br>far out-lasting<br>their Grecian eaters,<br>or of the furniture<br>in a pharoah's tomb<br>on which<br>no one sits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trust the wind,<br>my lover,<br>and the water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have the<br>answers<br>to all your questions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389897" data-title="Middle Aged Lovers, I de Erica Jong" data-description="Unable to bear the uncertainty of the future, we consulted seers, mediums, stock market gurus, psychics who promised happiness on this or another planet, astrologists of love, seekers of the Holy Grail. Looking for certainty we asked for promises..."></div> </div> </div>

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