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Also, and more along the lines of what I want this blog to become, I was just reading some poetry by Rumi, the 13th century poet, and my new favorite. There were a few lines in a poem that really struck me. You could say they were pregnant with meaning. Their bellies just bulged over with something that reached out and grabbed me (that's kind of an accidental Alien reference, oops!). Here they are, unadulterated (get it, sex, adulterated, pregnancy...):
Whenever two are linked this way, there comes another
from the unseen world. It may be through birth,
if nothing prevents conseption,
but a third does come, when two unite in love,
or in hate. The intense qualities born
of such joining appear in the spiritual world.
You will recognize them when you go there.
Your associations will bear progeny.
Be careful, therefore. Wait and be conscious,
before you go to meet anyone.
Remember there are children to consider!
Children you must live with and tend to,
born of your emotions with another, entities
with a form, and speech, and a place to live.
They are crying for your even now.
You have forgotten us. Come back.
Be aware of this. A man and a woman together
always have a spiritual result.
From The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks, p57
To me what reaches out and grabs me is that love is creation. That even if a couple never has children, they are creating something that never existed before by their union. Lately I've been wondering if I am even cut out to be in a long-term relationship because perhaps, I'd just keep messing things up. This poem seems to say that you will mess up if you aren't fully committed but that if you really give it a go, you'll make something new. And I've really been wanting to make something new lately. Its just not easy to create sometimes and I think I get scared at the thought of that, even though I just now realized that that is what there is to be scared about...creating something "another (person, place or thing) from the unseen world."
