Love, A Revelation

 

 

Love, A Revelation

A poem written by Terry Macrae

Looking back, I've had more than my share

of exes throughout my current life

on the planet I call home for now. 

I thought that I had found love 

with some of them but last year

I came to the startling realization

that I didn't really know what love truly is. 

On a warm day in August last year, 

someone I had just met on an online 

dating service turned my lonely life

upside down. That day,

we met for the first time. 

She pulled up to my apartment

in her red compact. I walked 

over to the driver's side waiting

for her to climb out. 

When she did, she looked up

at me as I looked down at her. 

Something awakened in me

then that was so unexpected

that I stopped breathing

for a few moments. 

From deep inside me, I just knew

that she possessed the soul

that my soul had searched for

but never found, until now. 

I was stunned and amazed

all at once. 

The revelation was that love

is more than physical or even

emotional attraction though

those were present here.

No, there's much more to it. 

Our souls know more than we do. 

And my soul knew hers and I felt

that her soul knew it too. 

We shared a kiss before she 

brought her little dog and her things

into the apartment. 

Inside, amidst the rocket's red glare,

we shared the most incredible

night that I had ever experienced 

with another human being. 

We were more than just intimate. 

Our souls communed. 

We knew that the Universe

had brought us together 

to share real, true love. 

Something neither of us 

had experienced before. 

The special love of soulmates. 

We celebrated that love in a beautiful

wedding ceremony in June with family 

gathered around. 

There is a song by the Grass Roots

called "Lovin' Things" where

the singer sings, "our friends call us

a perfect pair." 

My soulmate and I are just that, 

a perfect pair, together, forever.