The second blush of love <br />Is more careful than the first <br />Searching for that rare soulmate <br />Knowing that hurt lives round the corner <br />And isn’t worth provoking <br />But also that pain <br />Often precedes the joy we cherish <br /> <br /> <br />For the second blush of love <br />Knows that attraction purely physical <br />Takes you only so far <br />And as the sated haze lifts <br />The emptiness isn’t worth living with <br />And so the unconscious search for companionship begins <br />That’s not asking too much, or is it? <br /> <br /> <br />And sometimes, companions we do find <br />Friends, mentors, guides and guardians <br />Who enrich our soul <br />And joyful do the journey make <br />Banishing the curse of loneliness <br />But in our quiet moments <br />Returning to yearn, for that elusive soulmate <br /> <br /> <br />Like a mirage, our mate eludes <br />And like a fantasy, lures back the waiting heart <br />With hope, among a billion people <br />There must be one <br />Whose soul beats in harmony with mine <br />In whose eyes we see stories of the past merge <br />With love, this life brings <br /> <br /> <br />That special soul we recognize <br />With every atom vibrating in harmony <br />When found, tender and careful we are <br />Hoping this isn’t a chimera <br />But as real as the energies that joyfully leap <br />Between us every time we connect <br />In this second blush of love <br /> <br /> <br />To know this truth, makes life worthwhile <br />Even if we are separated by time and tide <br />Or age, culture and marriage <br />Or if this relationship has no future in this life <br />There are many more lives <br />Born across the seas of time, we have found each other <br />In this second blush of love <br /> <br /> <br />Assuming new avatars each time <br />As mighty priest and priestess <br />Or a humble shepherd and his mate <br />An artist and his muse perhaps <br />Or a magician and his sorceress <br />Our souls have sought each other, in all the lives that were <br />And those yet to come, to join in sacred harmony<br /><br />Anita Atina<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-second-blush-of-love/
