Amigo Absoluto

QUEST Take me past the guarded place in you where confusion covers itself in unrelenting confidence then marches on In lively steps Take off the façade let it fall away into nowhere Turn around and face me I search the infinite depth where beyond all entrenchments I find your thirst to be met and understood the sadness in your bones, the want of your silent cries to be heard and be known— abiding within those unseen landscapes is a world of precious dreams Let me touch where the battle wounds lie quietly healing— Buried beneath an armored sheath rests a lifetime of love and loneliness, blame and triumph, honor and defeat Within this blended web of scars and treasures, glistening with honesty, there you are— I found you, beneath the soldier’s plated heart So loosen the knots around my own see all its agony bared and mending and in between each open space we’ll breathe upon the frailty All the wishful longings to be had bring to me yours as ...

The Mystery Having met you later in life, there are no memories of young romantic love,... high school roller skating parties, college weekdays longing for your touch. No memories of experiencing together life’s first tastes of freedom or the innocence of believing that we had all the time in the world. I never knew your young body nor you mine; those days when I looked radiant in the morning. When life finally brought us together We stood before each other In the stark reality of all we had become. Too mature to hide Yet secretly wondering If the other would stay And if love was worth the trouble After all this time. Piece by piece We removed the layers of life Shedding off what no longer served us Until we discovered a place deep inside, Beyond judgment, expectation, Or what anyone else thought Where we found only pure light. Smiling, we instinctively knew We had everything we needed For the rest of the journey. Now With you by my side I can see the li...

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” – Vera Nazarian

“I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder As you and I once heard their monotone. Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me The cold and sparkling silver of the sea – We two will pass through death and ages lengthen Before you hear that sound again with me.” — Sara Teasdale

Rietveld chair Do you know the feeling that you are going to sit down? on a chair that is not there the sensation that something is suddenly not where you had expected it without a double, an invisible push from the front. Surprised messages to all muscles: Mayday! Mayday! We are floating! We are falling! fold out reflex of both arms. That's why the Rietveld chair is as it is, so low and blue and red and good, as to point out that one occasionally have to sit down on a chair that does not exist. Ingmar Heytze From: It was about roses Publisher Podium 2002

Consider the other kingdoms. The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north have dozens of words to describe its different arrivals. Or the creatures, with their thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their infallible sense of what their lives are meant to be. Thus the world grows rich, grows wild, and you too, grow rich, grow sweetly wild, as you too were born to be.~Mary Oliver Image~Earshel Hogan Moonlight Serenade