Of Elements To Bind Me

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Poem By: Itsuwari
Poetry

Tags: poetry, understanding, bound, goddess, truth, revelation

'What power is lost in translation, is refound in understanding' It has been said that a word is most powerful in its original language and dialect. But the translation from one language to many gives that word a newer, greater power; to be understood by not one people, but many. View table of contents...

Submitted: Apr 11, 2008 Reads: 56 Comments: 3 Likes: 6

It is my soul alone that writes these words
For nothing else can speak such force
It is my heart alone that seeks this truth
For nothing else can stay this course
It is all my being that is poured before my Goddess
So She may tell me what I am to hear
It is all my thoughts that turn to Her in darkness
So that She may choose what I am to fear
Though these thoughts are my own
And not for the deliverance of mankind
I will speak them now with Her as my witness
That in such thoughts, my heart will not bind
It is my blood that I spill to feed the ground
That the earth may partake of my soul
It is my will that I give to Her
That she may decide to know
I seek not freedom from this ground
Nor this sky
Nor this fire
Nor sea
I seek not freedom from this soul
For these elements bind me to Her
And it is my soul alone that writes these words
For nothing else can speak such truth.

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Comments:

matthew smith

so above all this is a love poem in which your soul is revealing its deepest desires to the woman u love? But the soul deals in emotions not words, so this is a translation of your soul or its most inviolable feelings? And through words those feelings take on a greater purpose or meaning? Im probably wrong but this is what i take from this poem...it's good powerful stuff

Posted: Apr 14, 2008

Author Comment:

You are never worng. A poem is a form of abstract comunication. Whatever you wish to see in it, is there. Though for what this poem means to me, you are not even close. :)

SkarlettStone

Which Godess do you speak of? As this poem means different to me, than it does to you, I still wonder what it means to you. And though I can guess, I never will know for certian, because knowlage isn't reality. As She protects me, so does she to you.

Posted: Apr 15, 2008

Author Comment:

Which goddess? Seems an odd question from one of a bastard religion (no offense, truly I am of such as well). She is everything, She is Christ, and God, and Sheli'e, and Mahavidya, Ashta Lakshmi, Navadurga, Aphrodite, Athena, Zeus, Gullveig, Skaði, Uzza, and She is as many as she protects, the one who is faceless yet has many forms, nameless yet, as you can see, has many names. She is an absoluteness that defies abstractity, and an abstractness that defies absolution. Though, perhaps, I am not one to take word from. I am not of any religion.