In spiritual solitude
I surrender
Beyond the heavens...
I Totally surrender
And faith grows
And the barrier
Of distance
Is shattered
And
At my command
I envision
You
And weaken
At the mere thought of
You.
Unrelenting flames of desire
Expel throughout my body
Engulfing
My every instinct...
An ideal of love: To love with all desire and
yet to be as kind as an old man past desire.
- Yeats
What is beyond desire,
but desire?
- Gretel Ehrlich
The face of a lover is an unknown,
precisely because it is invested
with so much of oneself.
It is a mystery,
containing like all mysteries,
the possibility of torment.
- James Baldwin