Unending Love by Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age-old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same
Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man’s days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –
And the songs of every poet past and forever.


***So my niece posted a picture of Audrey Hepburn who just happened to be my inspiration for my "creative black tie" attire for the wedding on Friday (Michael and David's).  It prompted me to google Audrey Hepburn and read a little bit about her life.  She died of cancer and after her death Gregory Peck went on camera and recited her favorite poem  "Unending Love" by Rabindranath Tagore.

So I googled it...and this is the poem.  And its funny because I went to a psychic once and when I asked about my love life, she told me that the person I was with (Andy) I had been with for hundreds of years.  At that point we had been dating a couple of years.  Maybe more.  She told me that our souls had been together since at least the middle ages and we always find each other in each new life.  She told me that Andy was "the outdoorsy type" and we owned lots of land in Europe and he raised animals and had acres of pastures.  She told me that I was independent and that "Andy" was always very supportive of me and encouraged me to do what I wanted to do with my life even if it was not the norm or unheard of for women to be so independent or innovative. 

Hoaky?  yeah...but through the years I remember what she said...I wish I still had the tape!  And this poem reminded me of that psychic and everything she had to say.  That I really did have a soulmate and that our souls had been intertwined for centuries.  Do I believe it?  Yes I think I do.  We have a connection that I cannot explain, and I believe it does have something to do with it.  I believe there is some higher being and I don't claim to know who "he" is or what "his" plan for me is...but I believe what I feel.  I found my soulmate when I was 17.  Who is that lucky?  This girl, that's who.

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