The Veil of Enigma
It is said that twin flames meet endless times,
In fragments of memories of different lifetimes
Their souls reincarnate and their paths cross magically
through Destiny.
You’re an enigma waiting to happen to me
A lurking shadow in my dream within a dream,
Vividly reminiscing your face as those deep set, sullen eyes
Only have this longing stare for me.
Beyond time and space, this thin veil that envelopes
The mystery behind my long search for you
Will reveal that no matter how many times my earthly body
dies
My spirit will never cease to find you.
Even when I’ll be put to the ultimate tests,
The veil of enigma surrounding your existence
Brings an undying thrill to my senses.
No, I will not tire of finding my Beloved
Even if it takes me from one world to another,
There is a distinct sweet echo from the mere sound of your
voice
Leaving this heart helpless in such ways one cannot fathom,
And the first time my eyes met yours
Feels like lounging in a never-ending story of fantasy
For it is just you who possess this magic that enthralls me;
The only one who ignites this burning flame
To heed the call of the Spirit of a Hundred Names.
["The Spirit With the
Hundred Names" depicts Antoine de Saint Exupery's The Little Prince's planet with his
Rose. When the rose died, it became the Spirit With The Hundred Names searching
for its twin flame. The spirals depict the cycle of reincarnation upon
reincarnation.)
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, gained fame as an aviator, one of the pioneers of international postal flights in Europe, Africa, and South America. In 1939 he joined the Armée de l'Air and then, after the Franco-German armistice of 1940, went to the US in an effort to persuade the American government to declare war. In 1942 he wrote and illustrated "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince). A pilot who had crashed in the Sahara desert encountered the book's titular character, who rode a flock of birds from "asteroid 325," his home world that was the size of a house. The prince revealed that he loved a sentient rose. A yellow snake informed him that it had the power to return him to his home and rose. The prince bid an emotional farewell to the pilot, telling him that if it seemed as though he was dead it was because his body was too heavy to take with him. The snake bit the prince, who fell down, but the pilot was never able to find his body. The novella was published in French and English, but, since his literary works were banned in France, it was not published in his native country during his lifetime. Translated into over 300 languages and dialects, it became the world's 3rd-best-selling book with over 140 million copies. At 43, he received special permission from the Allied commander Dwight Eisenhower to fly with the Free French in North Africa, though suffering pain and immobility due to his many previous crash injuries, to the extent that he could not dress himself in his own flight suit or even turn his head leftwards to check for enemy aircraft. He also resumed his habit of writing and reading while flying his plane; once he delayed landing for an hour so that he could finish a novel. On 31 July 1944 he departed Corsica on a reconnaissance mission but did not return. In 1998 a fisherman found a gourmette (silver identity bracelet) with his name on it south of Marseille, and 2 years later the partial remains of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning were located nearby; they were recovered in 2003 and confirmed as Saint-Exupéry's plane in 2004. Stacy Schiff noted that the author and the prince "remain tangled together, twin innocents who fell from the sky."
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