The Awakening
The Awakening - meaning Summary
Longing for Sustaining Presence
The poem depicts a speaker roused by kisses into a luminous moment of love that blurs dream and waking. The beloved is largely unseen yet powerfully present, lifting the speaker into ecstatic awareness and leaving the heart devoted on the beloved’s path. The voice accepts vulnerability and even possible neglect, asking only for continued attention. Central themes are longing, spiritual intimacy, and dependence on an absent but sustaining presence.
Read Complete AnalysesIn the early dawn of happiness you gave me three kisses so that I would wake up to this moment of love I tried to remember in my heart what I’d dreamt about during the night before I became aware of this moving of life I found my dreams but the moon took me away It lifted me up to the firmament and suspended me there I saw how my heart had fallen on your path singing a song Between my love and my heart things were happening which slowly slowly made me recall everything You amuse me with your touch although I can’t see your hands. You have kissed me with tenderness although I haven’t seen your lips You are hidden from me. But it is you who keeps me alive Perhaps the time will come when you will tire of kisses I shall be happy even for insults from you I only ask that you keep some attention on me.
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