Ideal

by Dan Corjescu / February 19th, 2023

I set out for paradise
Since here is not you

I grab for a time
That will see you rise
While I in this life was willfully blinded
By your bright comings and goings

I stretch towards eternity
A broken poet
To remember the better half of my wasted mortal life

I bend over the infinite
To caress that which was never mine

I approach the immortal
Where the kiss I send to thee can never be denied

I am ready to sleep the sleep of oblivion
To leave the hard clasp of earth
To enter a dream of softest divinity
Where I shall embrace only you, forever

Dan Corjescu teaches at the University of Tübingen's "Studium Professionale" program. Read other articles by Dan.

This article was posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2023 at 8:03am and is filed under Poetry.