JCU Love Letters 2.0
#6223
Sitting shoulder to shoulder on the water, immersed in this cold sunset evening, the Ross River mired by canopies of gum trees, the sight fills our eyes with what fills our hearts; a classical work of art- rendered visceral through the experience of each other; an art reality. Cicadas call in the time of one-two, like a waltz on this peaceful, quiet evening. A bird silently takes flight, skimming the river, and your gentle, loving hand flys up, skimming my arm. You look from the sunset at me, my heart dilates, widens, warms, as you tell me with your eyes what we will do… your lashes drop halfway, almost as if there were something you were sad to say. It’s not sadness, but deep passion. You move closer, the cold brings us in, your breath is quiet, but you make a restrained, sharp sigh, that speaks a world of longing, a wanting to let go and love, so I move in and you sink your lips into mine. Together we sink, deep into our love- not yours or mine, but ours. Your lips press just enough so they’re always caressed, not overtaken, not gasping for breath, but a lovely kiss that comes from deep inside the heart. Our lips sculpting artwork into each other, our hearts are close, we feel the subtle rhythms in each other’s pace and jam to the beat of our hearts…
…We slowly move away, waking up from falling half asleep in this passionate love dream, a meditation, a dreamfast into the other. I give you just one more kiss… and another, then you beat me to the next one I was about to make, and we laugh softly. Holding you here with your head on my shoulder, gazing back at our surroundings as we return to the world. The lights spangled on the gum tree by the bridge is now the brightest source of light we see. Busy car lights snatch our content stare, stolen by their own racing lights, to and fro, one after the other. I say to you how peculiar it is, that we are here, having figured out the answer to life, right here on this platform on the water, while they are just over there, going back and forth like busy ants, dehumanised in their machines, dehumanised being without this answer; of love, and a kiss from the depths of our heart. You go to say something, then slap yourself in pain to get a mozzie. I rub it better and we leave without looking back.
- The Wondering Soldier
發表於: May 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.