Platonic Intimacy

To know that someone

Repeatedly accepts your vulnerabilities,

Recognizes intimacy has many layers,

Is to share the touch of the invisible,

The aura of body resonance,

Not from lustful satisfaction,

But as vibrations

Borne of mutual empathy for the assailable in each,

Begetting smiles of tearful joy shared by both.

It is to hear the sublime silence

Of unspoken words communicated

And the response given

In the same voiceless language,

While believing sharing platonic love

With souls precariously wounded,

Helps prepare to regain creation’s promised potential.

Still…

As the sixth sense implores you

To give of your gender-blind kindness,

To be the poultice to another’s wounded heart,

Providing strength for wisdom’s repair

And the dissolution of flesh-borne desertion,

Know that only then

Might one’s grieving solitary darkness

Provide inner- light for the morrow,

Create a renewed sense of levitational joy

Ready to attach, not by way of risk,

But by way of truth held firm,

Even as visceral pleasures

Continually remind one

Of mementos that might

Remain in regret’s

Shallow pool

Of stagnancy.

At some point…

We all need

The courage to embrace the ebb and flow of

Platonic intimacy for the sake of preserving

Authentic love.