Middlesex Blog #4: Poem

Blog #4:

"Ecstasy. From the Greek Ekstasis. Meaning not what you think. Meaning not euphoria or sexual climax or even happiness. Meaning, literally: a state of displacement, of being driven out of one's senses"(374).

Original Piece:

The Burn

One look

I set off the fire

that erupted across his cheeks

traveling thorough his chest

controlling his heart

controlling my heart

One touch

The flames had reached our throats

Smoke filled our lungs

pouring out through our eyes

Ash clogging our ears

Neither one of us sought

To extinguish

the fire that raged

But I let go

Gasping for air

like a fish being thrown into the ocean

I swam away in a trance of terror

My heart thumped

squeezing the cold blood

through my veins

His scars faded

Mine remained

He loved the warmth

I ached for the burn

Explanation:

In this poem I was just trying to express the destruction of intense desire. While some can move forward and learn to love someone else with intense passion. Some are forever caught up on one person. In some ways, ecstasy can leave people in a naive state of mind. Especially , if you have never experienced that strong of emotion. It leaves you wanting to recreate that same type of feeling. When one has too much euphoria at once it can be destructive for both the mind and body. The same way drugs work. Everyone knows, drugs are horrible for your body because it consumes your entire existence altering your state of mind. In relation to Middlesex, one can say that Callie finds love and ecstasy in being with the Obscure Object. She consumes Callies life. Overall, love and the feeling of ecstasy can leave one wanting more. When you find someone you love never let them go. Unless, they do not love you back. Then you have to learn how to heal and move forward and not get stuck on one feeling of passion.