Of a young man I once did dream
His face, his presence, his entire being ...
So vivid and with such familiarity
So complete. So extreme.
And so, did my longing and searching begin.
So long I looked into vacant,
masses of unseeing eyes
None of which could hear my silent scream.
Slowly, I gave up hope, I gave up looking
And so settled I, into a life of pleasing...
The masses with their vacant, unseeing eyes
Now actors on the stage in my hollow dream.
Roles I chose, and sometimes they chose me
The acts each unfolding, overlapping, repeating ...
I learned to love, to hate, to accept, to grow.
And so moved I, into a life of doing and being.
Only when I had learned, to just be
And not hang onto past ideology...
There you were
in front of me.
You are that young man I of once did dream
Your face, your presence, your entire being ...
So vivid and with such familiarity
So complete. So extreme.
A new act we now do begin
Our reality, no longer my hollow dream ...
Together we now learn - to love, to accept, to grow.
United and complete. One Being.
© Janet Pieterse 08/03/2012
For Barend Booysen
His face, his presence, his entire being ...
So vivid and with such familiarity
So complete. So extreme.
And so, did my longing and searching begin.
So long I looked into vacant,
masses of unseeing eyes
None of which could hear my silent scream.
Slowly, I gave up hope, I gave up looking
And so settled I, into a life of pleasing...
The masses with their vacant, unseeing eyes
Now actors on the stage in my hollow dream.
Roles I chose, and sometimes they chose me
The acts each unfolding, overlapping, repeating ...
I learned to love, to hate, to accept, to grow.
And so moved I, into a life of doing and being.
Only when I had learned, to just be
And not hang onto past ideology...
There you were
in front of me.
You are that young man I of once did dream
Your face, your presence, your entire being ...
So vivid and with such familiarity
So complete. So extreme.
A new act we now do begin
Our reality, no longer my hollow dream ...
Together we now learn - to love, to accept, to grow.
United and complete. One Being.
© Janet Pieterse 08/03/2012
For Barend Booysen
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