Sat we two, one another best, <br />Bodies were left; souls rose and met. <br />They transacted their love at best. <br />Struck by the sight of their bodies, <br />Motionless, the souls asked themselves: <br />‘Our bodies why so we forbear? <br />They are ours, though they are not we.’ <br />We are flames and they are matter. <br />‘We owe them thanks because they thus <br />did us, to us, a first convoy <br />yielded their forces, senses to us.’ <br />The souls returned to their bodies, <br />And declared in solemnity: <br />“To feel love, we live in bodies.” <br />29.10.2008 <br />[ Based on the poem with the same title, written by the famous love poet John Donne 1572-1631]<br /><br />Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-extasie/
