What Those Enigmatic Looks Mean to Me (Lovers in the School of Athens)

1. 

We are not meant to be.

You chose me

and now I chose you,

but for my own reasons -- and I know

that I don`t know all of them.

But we are at a point

as a species

in which all things have a reason

even if we don`t know them

supposedly time will tell

just as soon as I am running out of it

shutting my eyes, maybe

then I will hum myself

into that dream we used to talk about.

2. 

Sometimes things are not

only what they seem to be

who I am to you is not

only what my name is

or whatever you see

on the other side of that peephole

of a pronoun.

I would tell you about 

the Kingdom of God

and how my real home

isn't so hard to get to

but there are no street signs leading
there, really;

more like ancient heiroglyphs

so old you can't be sure they are there

but I don't talk like you

hence the last three lines.

What I see in the ordinary day

is actually just a crude representation

of what is going on in His Eternity

which is Eternal and so requires

certain things to happen

sometimes for no graspable reason.

I could say the same talking about

parallel universes or

using references to Greek philosophers

who debated if Truth was up or down

Here or There

as they walked through a courtyard

and descended the steps

where all the students hangout thinking.

If you look at the painting

you can see us right there

leaning against that pillar
in a past life.