"Sketching Thoughts"

by Tyler Merritt

Gorgeous blue-eyed blonde haired woman of power. Intimately intimating beautiful misbehavior. Perpetrator of forbidden fruits, eating the sweetness of unspoken feelings together. Promises of touching the untouchable heart of things secured over months of five-minute hellos and goodbyes morning, noon, and night - talking around the chaos, wishing there were more opportunities to share important things. Knowing somehow inside that fear separates the voice from the emotions, hands telling stories mouths cannot. The object of all phyloginous males. Protectorate manifestation - a wall to keep out reality, a wall to hold on to sentimentality - dreams mark the celebrations of soul, intertwined something like loves after losing the objectivity necessary to determine where she ends and he begins. The chorus through these years of understanding harmonizing after the melodies of individual decrescendo. Verbratto vibrations vibrating violently as one voice, one note, there is only one understanding between two hearts joined across any continent or ocean. Needless reassurance ends with the melody, identity lost, this cunning partnership evolves like the dawn, mystifying the involved watcher. Watcher - watch! Look at the truth of the words Mohammed spoke, the parables Jesus taught, and the silence Sakyamuni gave in the interest of defining the indefinable - this mystery of mysteries. The unsearchable searched, found: the meaning beyond eternal, the chorus behind the melody, the fabric behind the sould, the truth of a lotus blossom. Found: connection. Possibly never disconnected from birth, conception, or cosmic inception. Possibly connected before thinkers thought up time. Not sure. Don't mind. Lovers before convention created constraints to conceal emotionally coquettish confectioneries. Sharing passions with a world ashamed of feeling passion. Forcing eyes to see and ears to hear. Knowing the other's desire before original desire. Together, like one body sharing two minds, two hearts, two souls.

I love you, Aina.