The second blush of love

The second blush of love

Is more careful than the first

Searching for that rare soulmate

Knowing that hurt lives round the corner

And isn’t worth provoking

But also that pain

Often precedes the joy we cherish


For the second blush of love

Knows that attraction purely physical

Takes you only so far

And as the sated haze lifts

The emptiness isn’t worth living with

And so the unconscious search for companionship begins

That’s not asking too much, or is it?


And sometimes companions we do find

Friends, mentors, guides and guardians

Who enrich our soul

And joyful do the journey make

Banishing the curse of loneliness

But in our quiet moments

Returning to yearn, for that elusive soulmate


Like a mirage, our mate eludes

And like a fantasy, lures back the waiting heart

With hope, among a billion people

There must be one

Whose soul beats in harmony to mine

In whose eyes we see the stories of our past merge

With love, this life brings


That special soul we recognize

With every atom vibrating in harmony

When found, tender and careful we are

Hoping this isn’t a chimera

But as real as the energies that joyfully leap

Between us every time we connect

In this second blush of love

         
To know this truth, makes life worthwhile

Even if we are separated by time and tide

Or age, culture and marriage

Or if this relationship has no future in this life

There are many more lives

Born across the seas of time, we have found each other

In this second blush of love


Assuming new avatars each time

As mighty priest and priestess

Or a humble shepherd and his mate

An artist and his muse perhaps

Or a magician and his sorceress

Our souls have sought each other, in all the lives that were

And those yet to come, to join in sacred harmony