...On Feeling a Feeling

…the value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

C.S. Lewis  TheReality of the Spiritual

I feel for you more than pen will allow

To proportion into word

And foolish-like sometimes, somehow

I forget that eons heard

The song of it long, long before

I was stirred by its melody

Darling, the more I hear of it

The more it vexes me

For I feel in its very bearing

All it can never become

And even as I’m wearing

Its ‘welcome home-sweet-home’

I feel an hour stealing

Its very breath from me

Yet, all I have is feeling

A stranger’s sympathy

© Janet Martin

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