The Mystery of the Trinity

There once was an ephemeral place
Such a place...
Where his heart, his soul,
And his mind came together.
They were as one as
She realized them to be.
She saw Harmony lead them on
To Her-- Her, someone whose name
Doesn't matter; let's call her Love.

She loved him and he loved Her.
"Love" is a funny word.
They never said it.
They meant it.
All of this happened before,
On a lonely road where Obscurity
Stopped to give him a lift.
He hitched a ride in darkness
That drove him to the Dead End.

It happened to be a leap year
Though She never paid attention
To any calendar.
She measured the days
Like no one before
Or since-- at least
That was the way
She made him feel.
She asked him to marry...
And to have children.

He replied to her proposal.
She took it in stride--
Something he said...
He wanted to think.
He needed to get away,
Just for a while, to think.

Just for completeness sake
You should know that Love
Never asked him what
He wanted to think about.
Love was like that.

Once, they gave everything--
Their hearts, their souls
Their minds, each to each.
Freely given, per se freely.
Love was like that, and when he
Met her, he held nothing back.
Love made him feel good.
The per se good.
The philosopher's good.
He imagined that Love
Treasured similar feelings
In Her Heart.

The kind of love you read about
The kind of love you believe
Could never exist, did exist.
He knew that once.
It happened when
His heart, his soul, and his mind,
Came together for that one time.
Not even in a dream...
Not even in a dream.

He was vulnerable.
He lost all vulnerability
When She appeared
They became one--
His heart, his soul and his mind.
She loved all three.
She loved all three as one...
This was the Mystery of the Trinity.

Only Love understood this Mystery.
He couldn't explain it.
She told him that it didn't matter
What he thought -- Leave the
Horizons alone, Love said.
What matters is what we feel
What we see, what we touch,
What we are, together.
When he tried to look beyond,
That's when Trouble would start.

At the Dead End
He remembered--
When he first met Love,
He asked her a question--
What about the body--
How does the body fit into all this?
The body, she said,
The body is nothing...
It's just for us to use...
Like this.
She kissed him.
You feel the body?
Yes, he said.
That's not the body
That you feel, Love said.
She kissed him again...
This lets you forget
Your thoughts.
She kissed him again...
This lets you feel
Your sweet heart.
She kissed him again...
This frees your soul
From your body.
What do you mean?
I know, she said,
It doesn't make sense...
But your heart, spirit
And mind are one now.
Three in one...
Do you see? Love said,
The Mystery of the Trinity.

He stood there in the night
Looking around him
All he could see was
The Dead End...
What am I thinking about?
Let me go back
Let me find Love again...
But, at the Dead End
Love was nowhere to be found.
~Dr.M