My fellow lover of linguistics?
I can’t. There aren’t any in my native tongue.
(i) “Aloha” is the closest word in any language,
But, still, it just misses the mark.
It hasn’t the resonance that compares
To the vibration of my soul
When you face me with your arms outstretched.
What song can I dedicate to the emotions that your
Soul brings to mine; none deliver.
(ii) “Sometimes When We Touch” comes to mind,
But only a few lyrics, taken out of context;
Like people do with the Bible so often
As they can’t make the words fit their needs.
What movie, television show, or play,
Can hold a candle to what I experience
When I watch you raising your babies?
Only one, (iii) “Fraggle Rock,” & yet it still doesn’t resound
The admiration I feel when I see
My ideal parenting blossoming in reality.
What topography can I use to describe
This connection? I want to find a mountain
As they are grandiose, but my mind. . .
It goes straight to the (iv) mushroom, Egads!
Decay. . . a fungus? I hear the world’s dogma
Shaming me.
Another way you are desirable to me?
You see the underlying connection. Feel it.
As do I.
My body reacts in such a sensual way
When you look me in the eye
That I must look away because. . .
I fear.
i “’Aloha’ is being a part of all, and all being a part of me. When there is pain - it is my pain. When there is joy - it is also mine. I respect all that is as part of the Creator and part of me. I will not willfully harm anyone or anything. When food is needed I will take only my need and explain why it is being taken. The earth, the sky, the sea are mine to care for, to cherish and to protect. This is Hawaiian - this is Aloha!” http://www.huna.org/html/deeper.html
ii Dan Hill 1977, “Sometimes When We Touch” {partial lyrics, taken out of context (it’s a necessary evil)}; specifically these lyrics: “I want to hold you till I die, Till we both break down and cry. I want to hold you till the fear in me subsides” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes_When_We_Touch
iii Fraggle Rock’s “Come & Follow Me:”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOwfbaKRgY
http://henson.com/family_fragglerock.php?content=story
iv Mushrooms: http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/13-mushrooms-clean-up-oil-spills-nuclear-meltdowns-and-human-health
