Fernando Pessoa; how unkowingly you are loved...

It's been a long time since the last time I had written anything on here. In truth, it's been a long time since I last wrote anything of much substance. I had recently spent some time typing up my collection of poems that had filled one of the many books I have. The content of which varies in tone, and style, voice and content.
   While reading a book of Pessoa's, and admittedly, one that had most highly influenced my own creative process with regards to this 'blog', (its title, especially) I had come to fall 'in love' with his own visionary process and methods. As a man, with many facets of character, I find him quite fascinating. As a writer, I find him captivating. Here is an ode to Pessoa...

Love has struck,

No, not love,

it is deeper than a union

forged and fused

by the chemicals within

two bodies.

And how I am compelled

to admit the physical properties

that beckon my heart.

My love is genderless-

it is no woman,

no man,

it is a mind made known

by the appeal to consciousness.

Pessoa wrote his book

and as I read

I read myself,

know my soul,

bound by an intellect

greater than my own.

I read my thoughts,

my words,

as I may never know the truth

and wisdom to write them.

But I know love.

Two persons, overcome with solitary nature,

the greatness of everything, and greater still,

our loneliness. We know this both,

the each of us,

and though we will never meet,

never know one another,

I feel the harmony of our souls

which will always

never exist.