Poem

Kiss of my love.

Your beauty overwhelms me
As I wrap my arms around you
I press your softness tight
Great passion fills my inner being
I'm captured in your embrace
Your eyes control my very soul
The touch of your lips, heaven
Forever frozen in time
All else fades into nothing

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, although it is short and has an extremely literal meaning anyone can identify with it. Whether it be an 80 year old couple or little children meeting in their neighbors garden, love is all around us... and it transforms the way we think about a person, for we can look at what the world may perceive to be a worn and sea ridden oyster and see it as the potential to uncover a pearl. And not only does it change the mindset of the observer, but the observed as well. For once people understand that others do find them beautiful it unlocks a sort of mentality of power and possibility, and anyone can be considered beautiful. Although my generation focuses a lot on looks and we often become distracted by it we truly do value quality of feeling, and passion. My favorite lines of the poem have to be "Forever frozen in time/ All else fades into nothing", because often the search for this beauty is a crazy complex chase in where we can be burnt, bruised and almost buried as a result of the difficulty of finding that person. Yet once we do, the sum total of all our bruising's, burning s and metaphysical burials can be destroyed in an instant. For once we find that moment, be it a heavenly kiss or a smooth embrace, nothing else truly matters in the world... there is no past or future, there is no history or literature. Science means nothing and religion is absent, its a marriage of a sort... a joining of two actions in a single movement that dispel anything else in the brain, it creates a focus on a single thing to achieve a certain result so strong that we are unable to focus on anything else. Suddenly our soul is blended into two and you are quickly becoming a force that can control and destroy but also a delicate, frail balance of emotion that can, with one offset, whirl into a dangerous and equally destructive being of pain and hurt. This is why it is so vital to balance love with other things, since it can completely consume someones world it can potentially create a lot harm.
I guess what i'm trying to say is that from personal experience with people, love is both the most beautiful, altruistic, and powerful emotion known to man.... but it is equally the creator of pain and anger. And sometimes after we go through these amazing moments such as melting away into a kiss we become addicted to the feeling and once that feeling is lost... we cannot find love again, until we find that moment.