| My Beautiful,
As-Yet-Unknown Love
When we honor the yearning we feel for
love and take full responsibility for putting our lives
in order, we draw love even closer. Being fit for a
relationship requires preparing body, mind and being, as
well as literally creating the space for love to enter.
Ultimately, soul mate love has its own schedule and the
journey is filled with great mysteries and questions.
Somehow, when the time is right and you are ready, you
will know. Let me share with you my favorite poem about
magnetizing soul mate love, "My Beautiful,
As-Yet-Unknown Love," by French poet Michel
Quiost.
My beautiful love, as yet unknown
you are living and breathing
somewhere far away, or perhaps quite close to me,
but I still know nothing
of the threads that form the fabric of your life
or the pattern which makes your face distinctive
My beautiful love as yet unknown
I would like you to think of me tonight
as I am thinking of you--
not in a golden dream that is far from my real self
but as I really am, a living person
My beautiful love, as yet unknown,
I love you although your face is hidden.
If I can make myself richer now, I shall be able to
enrich you
I want to learn how to give, rather than always to take
When you enter my life and I recognize you,
I do not want to take you like a thief.
I want to receive you like a treasure,
and let you give yourself to me.
My beautiful love as yet unknown,
How lovely it would be if we could seek and find
together
the chords that would form the right accompaniment
to the songs of joy and suffering that we shall sing
together!
My beautiful love as yet unknown,
I want to pray for you tonight
because you already exist,
because I already want to be faithful to you
and because you are already having difficulties
and possibly this is because of me.
I am preparing myself for you
and you are preparing yourself for me...
My beautiful love as yet unknown,
we have to wait for one another now.
We know how painful it is for lovers
who do not know each other’s faces
to go on waiting for each other!
But we also know that, although we are
still apart,
our two lives are looking and calling for each other.
And I am also sure that, in the darkness of our longing,
God's longing and God’s light are present.....
--Michel Quiost, France, 20th Century
Modified from a poem that appears in Sacred
Poems and Prayers of Love (Doubleday Books, 2000)
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