Love Poem: Drinking Song
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Written by: Justin Aptaker

Drinking Song

I am being born 
again 
and again 
From above
Not from the will of men 

And in these births is one aching desire
to connect with you
my sister, my bride
I'll never have another Lover
I've always had infinite lovers
My awareness has contracted
In order to expand
explosively 

Come and drink with me
Let us have our fill of love
Intoxicating
Our spirits touching one another
tenderly
and willingly

Let us open one another 
To the vulnerability 
That love requires 
Throwing down our shields and weapons 
to see the fruit of our desires

Oh, the pangs of this inexpressible love 
Come away with me
Come away and drink with me

It is with my blood that I write these words to you
My blood is spirit
My very life
I will never lose a single one of you
Friends and lovers
We could never lose each other

Wandering alone through Maya
all along, the illusion drawing us together 
This is our primal nature

Forsake the law
And repudiate morality 
This is our very destiny

Let us be naked
Let us expose ourselves 
Let us share ourselves freely
Let us connect completely 

What is the law
if not only
the darkest magic
We have ever found ourselves enslaved to?

Hyper-rationality
Fed good and evil from the same tree
Enlightenment Apollo 
Darkening our Dionysian revelry 
But it was for a purpose
Transcending means including
But with equality
Why should Apollo rule Dionysius?
Why should Bacchus yield to the hammer of Hephaestus?

Can you see we've always been completely innocent?
Do you still imagine that Love includes any imperfection?
Can you see that we are One and only One?
And that the One is always absolutely perfect?

Oh, our folly
Of free will and control 
Don't we know that we are each and every one
A multitude?

I am a community 
I fulfill the law of my community's desire
And care for all of them tenderly
But I do not exert control 
I am community 

Come commune with me
We'll express the inexpressible 
Playfully 
In turn
We are each communities 
Let our communities partake together 
Of this Dionysian revelry 
Making love from dusk till dawn
Then making love again

Let us leave the law and moral code
For other women, other men

Love under will
And fulfill 
the law of 
do what thou will

Only Love can thus possess you
But know that Love, this Chief of Daimons 
Had possessed you before you ever thought of Her
Her name is
Being, Consiousness, and Bliss

Have I merely drunk too much?
No, I cannot ever have my fill
Let me dream of friends and lovers
Let me love under the Will