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Kiss and Cry No More! Page 1 Our souls understand one another, say these words on this page, but the alphabet is simply the language of the mind. What of the body? Our bodies? Yours and mine? It is as if in the complex language of love, there were a word that could only be spoken by lips - when lips and tongues actually touch. Yes, that’s it, the Word that speaks through us and through all things, the Word made flesh that transcends the limits of bewitchment in the final, silent surrender of a kiss. Is this the secret of the Kiss? In the kiss, light, breath, and warmth fall in love. Desire glowers then flowers into the ecstasy of immortality. We kiss a beautiful mouth, and a key turns the lock of our fear, our fear, our fear, and we reach the point where everyone is truly sharing in the scheme of things human, we reach the point where everyone is truly sharing everything as interdependent / independent beings in the power of everyone. The light of awareness and the warmth of friendship mingle in spirit with the breath. The individualized light of awareness in the head goes down with the breath to meet in the chamber bed and grail of the heart. This, then, is metaphysics, where the inner meets the outer, where processes and potentials within ourselves awaken. The warmth held secret within the blood rises to the chalice of the heart, and then to the lips. In the kiss is the possible metamorphosis of the past and the sweet promise of the future. The form made continues or obscured. Page 2 Chaste Artemis awakened sleeping Endymion with the light brush of a butterfly kiss (later it’s Sleeping Beauty). Goethe’s Faust awakened Margaret’s passion with a kiss. Kissing on the lips seems to have been started by the early Christians and then Romans, but it was the Troubadours and their Courts of Love and Chivalry in the ninth to twelfth century that popularized and ennobled the ‘kiss’ to exalted heights of splendor and morality. To a Troubadour, once you kissed someone, you were connected for life, and perhaps beyond, to protect and to cherish, to honor and defend, to love from this time on to eternity. To kiss and fall in love was to vow to each other to stay connected in every way possible till each reached total enlightenment and the eternal portals of heaven. Once connected with the sacred kiss, neither hell nor high-water could part souls from their high goal of peace and happiness for all living beings on earth. To the Troubadour, the compassionate glance, the magical touch, and the spiritual kiss was equal to the Mahayana Buddhist vow to unite with all who are Enlightened and all who seek freedom from suffering. It was the eternal bond of friendship and joy. A kiss can trigger exulted perceptions revealing a greater meaning to life. A kiss can be a heavenly messenger for change. In the 16th century, the Rosicrucian’s Christian Rosencreutz (a Spiritual being said to be overshadowed by Buddha, Zoroaster, and the Christ) was legended to bestow a ‘kiss’ or touch from the invisible spiritual world to awaken a divine intervention (a kind of a ‘God made me do it,’ versus ‘the devil made me do it’ thing). History has it that biblical heroes such as Moses, Aaron and Jacob, left this world for a better one as a result of a kiss from God. Many ancients felt that the ‘kiss’ signified a death of the past, a renewal of self, and a rebirth into a higher world. Page 3 Nowadays we’re touched by such notions as the new age, the ‘Celestine Prophecy,’ the ‘Mutant Message,’ or even a Pee Shy song on the radio. Maybe it’s just a syncretistic moment that inspires us just when the sun breaks out of the clouds and pours onto our face. But ain’t it the truth that many of us still hold out for higher dreams of romance and futurity? We are captured by a higher vision and hope renewing to our hearts. The soap opera dream of a magic kiss and romance fills our world with the sweet promise of a Hollywood night at the movies. Are we the true mystics, troubadours, and saintly taskmasters of the world whose cup of love overflows to all of life? Do we see and feel something so beautiful that we may never recover…till we attain what we seek - total bliss and joy in the song of life and creativity singing from every heart, bird, and tree? Till all of William Blake’s hills are echoing the songs of heaven? So what is this secret of the mind’s eye breathing on the water’s of the blood? The light shining in the darkness? The breath on the waters? What is the secret of the blush of the cheeks and rose? Why are the lips rosy ruby red? Is it not that the blood is closest to the skin here? The kiss is metaphysical, it is not totally understood by science nor history. It remains a secret to the… Page 4 …uninitiated, the unloved. And as the ancient Philosophers, Theosophists, and Rosicrucians knew; the eternal pilgrim soul seeking enlightenment, or the true ‘self’ comes through the warmth of the blood to meet the light of day, through the senses to, in time, awaken the heart of enlightenment in truth and love and compassion. Somehow, the head and heart can come together on the lips. There is a real fire here that transcends gun power, that place where Breath feels alive. Massage therapists and Chinese acupuncturists point out that the conception vessel or acupuncture meridian rises from the root survival/sex chakras (psychic centers) to just below the lips, while the governing vessel or meridian rises from the root behind and below to go over the head to just above the lips. The lips are where heaven and earth meet the past and the future, the alpha and the omega. Is the kiss where our lips end? Or is it where the world begins, where the body and the blood, the bread and the wine, wholeness and holiness, awaken to Love. Is the kiss what led Christ to say, “Where two or more of you meet, I will be there.” Or, “This is my Body. This is my Blood.” All religions have their sacred kiss, or meeting. Perhaps we should all kiss more. The sacredness and power of the kiss is a secret few fully realize. It is something that cannot be forced nor faked, it is both given and received, and something more than can barely be explained in light of day. Perhaps one day, very soon, the kiss will become our new fiery weapon for peace. My Muse is Goddess. Her lips taste of wine. It has been too long since someone whispered, “Ohhh, shut up and kiss me.” Kiss me, then, Lover. Awaken my soul to destiny. Kiss me that glory may dwell in our land. When our lips touch, mercy and truth will meet together, righteousness and peace will kiss each other. Lips only sing when they cannot kiss. I long for silence. Delay no more. Share my breath. Let us touch in every cell. Let me know your taste, my beloved. – beijar — to kiss Personal Infinitive beijar beijarmos beijares beijardes beijar beijarem Present Indicative beijo beijamos beijas beijais beija beijam Imperfect Indicative beijava beijávamos beijavas beijáveis beijava beijavam Preterit Indicative beijei beijamos beijaste beijastes beijou beijaram Simple Pluperfect Indicative beijara beijáramos beijaras beijáreis beijara beijaram Future Indicative beijarei beijaremos beijarás beijareis beijará beijarão Present Perfect Indicative tenho beijado temos beijado tens beijado tendes beijado tem beijado têm beijado