Does anyone have a copy of "The Love Story of Alfred Prufrock?" Or something that really, really sounds like it? Please PM me if anyone can get a hold of it. Thanks.
Anyway, ladies/Gents, am not really mushy at the moment, as I have no gf. But this poem by Kahlil Gibran is also partially applicable to friends. Keep your friends close, but not too close. I especially like that line "let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance in between..."
(Now, if that friend is of the opposite sex and goes to bed with you a few incandescent times, was it anyone's loss? Or was it a treasure to be kept?)
MARRIAGE
Kahlil Gibran
Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
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Does anyone have a copy of "The Love Story of Alfred Prufrock?" Or something that really, really sounds like it? Please PM me if anyone can get a hold of it. Thanks.
Anyway, ladies/Gents, am not really mushy at the moment, as I have no gf. But this poem by Kahlil Gibran is also partially applicable to friends. Keep your friends close, but not too close. I especially like that line "let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance in between..."
(Now, if that friend is of the opposite sex and goes to bed with you a few incandescent times, was it anyone's loss? Or was it a treasure to be kept?)
MARRIAGE
Kahlil Gibran
Then Almitra spoke again and said, "And what of Marriage, master?"
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
rgds, LC