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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not To Be With You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not to be with you, <br> not to know your breathing beside me, <br> not to be able to put my arms around you <br>and kiss the black candles away, <br> change skies with a glance, <br> feel your mystery seeping into me <br>like a veil of rain, <br> my heart a hive of stars, <br> my body crazed <br>by a fragrance of the moon, <br> to feel the intimate moment hang <br> like a dropp of dew <br>poised like the silence that falls before it; <br> is a mountain peering down into its own valley<br> at a whisper of cloud <br>that passes like a secret, <br> a red carpet of blood that wants to fly <br> laid out for an unknown dignitary.<br>You are not here<br> but I walk with you alone <br> under the smudged moonlight, <br>through the tidal shadows of soft, ebbing trees, <br> and gusts of warm air touch me like your skin, <br> and the assent in your eyes <br>is a colour only the heart can see, <br> and my longing is a map to anywhere <br> my mouth might meet yours, <br>and my hands visit the shrines of your body<br> like pilgrims full of reverence <br> for an infidel religion <br>with beautiful eyes, <br> with sacred scars and a language <br> that is born along<br>with the serpent fire of my ripening passion<br> to annihilate myself in your doorway, <br> to unspool the river<br>in the supple coral of your water-rose, <br> the keel of my tongue <br> circumnavigating your startled equators, <br>and all your tender meridians<br> bowstrings taut with anticipation <br> of electric arrows released in ecstasy, <br>both of us wounded by insatiable joy <br> in a storm of mushrooms and black cherries, <br> in the oceanic hunger of the sea <br>for an oracular island of forbidden frenzies, <br> for mystic releases <br> that free oblivion from servitude <br>and teach the chains of existence<br> to dance to the music <br> of their own liberation, <br>their own falling away like rain, <br> that the true ground of their being <br> was always the wind<br>that binds the message to the world <br> in the arms of lovers creating each other <br> from black palettes in the darkness, <br>from moss and apricots, <br> from the long wharves <br> of interminable kisses<br>that gore like the horns of garden snails, <br> from the fountain-mouths of ancient eclipses, <br> the dark abundance <br>of the feast that is received like eyes <br> and the night chutes that open nocturnal poppies <br> like auroras of furious sugar<br>to squander the stars <br> in the throats of jubilant black holes, <br> to appease the unattainable <br>with the inexhaustible satiation of gratified silos.<br> Not to be with you, <br> my wings ache with urgent migrations, <br>and I am as impetuous as a sword<br> in the foundries of my blood, <br> and my voice<br>is the remote thunder of humbled apples, <br> and my dragons swarm<br> the abyss of your beauty <br>like shepherd moons, sunspots, <br> a calendar of desires<br> that marks every phase of your body off <br>as an apostate holiday, <br> the omen that winnows <br> a harvest of bells. <br>Not to be with you is a cloak <br> that weighs more than the night sky, <br> the eyelid of an iron rose, <br>a feather of lead<br> that drowns in its own reflection<br> like the shadow of a flightless longing, <br>the unquenchable silence<br> of a well on the moon <br> listening for rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</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=476799" data-title="Not To Be With You de Patrick White" data-description="Not to be with you, not to know your breathing beside me, not to be able to put my arms around you and kiss the black candles away, change skies with a glance, feel your mystery seeping into me like a veil of rain, my heart a hive of..."></div> </div> </div>
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