First Match!

The Talmud teaches...

First match is from heaven,

  Second, third...earned by deeds.

The Zohar qualifies...

A second match can be first,

  A first match can be second, third...

A first match is unique,

It’s oneself vibing in another’s skin;

  A shared soul pulsating in two bodies.

As a singular self,

We are everything to each other!

Until you came along,

All we could do is is long;

  Long for a distant unknown hope...

We have longed long,

We have longed in womb.

  We have longed since womb.

Finally you came along,

A harbinger of Divine compassion;

  Exposing seamless one in seeming two.

We asked how can we thank you,

For simply introducing us to ourselves?

You responded, “With a poem”.

So please accept our poem,

  In token thanks for a kindness,

    Of a sort that thanks doesn’t suffice.

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