Apad 3

He wanted to write a ballad
a dusk world of knights and faerie
the music a pilgrimage
of life finding love

She wanted to be a song
deep sensual bass driving
along her veins within a
beat of lust finding life

They met in a grey concrete
field of the silences noise can bring
and filled it in time with
laughter and shared hearts

the metal lady and the man of myths
singing together through dangerous rhythm

Apad 3 (about)

I know that at first glance this poem is about opposites attracting. And feel free to continue thinking that. Poems often lead to a schozoid life.full of the meaning the poet attended along with the meaning the reader gives it. And a poet who complains abou that fact either does not know the craft very well or is a bit on the self centered side (not that many writers are not a bit of both). This does not mean, obviously, that I think that readers should not make some sort of effort to understand what the poet meant. But they are always going to have their own filters operating during the process.

Anyway..back to the poem. I have known a number of couples who could fit the persona in the poem with varying degrees of accuracy. THe world is full of people who would love to escape to a different reality. And often that different reality is based on the reality that they do know. SO they build walls and live at least in part behind them. And sometimes two people meeet, and that point of commanality..wanting something different...become the basis of a relationship.

And sometimes an odd thing happens. By letting each other in, they let the world in. And find that they can function so long as they are together..open..dangerous.

sporadic but steady quote

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
--G. K.Chesterton