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I entered her
my first experience
of an ecstasy
complete
after clumsy gropingafter bits and pieces.
A revelation
and a transport
so elemental.
An intoxication
supreme.
Everything else
no longer mattered.
Here, consummation
and completion beckoned,
an end to all the
tasks;
to carry seed, and
find this one
to take it.
No room for doubts,
or fears,
or complications.
A clarity
emanating from the
juncture of my loins
with hers.
is moment followed
by weeks of worry,
certainty collapsed
by the weight
of consequences,
ill-conceived and
half-imagined.
Followed by repentance
and relief
shadowed by shame
at callow cowardice.
Her opening more completethan mine….
Her physical maturity
grounding her
as my lagging growth and
overpowering desire
struggled with
aff ection, and
a kind of promise
I could notbut fear.
It did not
“make a man of me.”
She, so young,
already a woman.
But it did mark the end
of my childhood,
this first blow
at my great wall
of Ego.
Her Gift,
I squandered,
has been my first
and greatest hit
struck in my life
for the sake of
my humility.
A Gift
I can no
longer repay,
but only hope
to pass-on
somehow.
Like a Leaping Salmon Swimming Upstream
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In her I met her
as leaping Salmon
swimming upstream,
jumping falls and
thrusting ahead
in a glory of
completion.
Her life,
for all its troubles,
over now,
her promise
did find
a home.
Swift with decision
aware of life’s
brief span,
she lived,
while I was caught
in equivocation.
Her Gift
remained,
her Joy remembered,
leaping
like a Salmon
swimming
upstream.
Antonio Dias 11.10.11
Like a Leaping Salmon Swimming Upstream