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"Coming is the same as being. It's what we're here for -- there's nothing else to do. Come with me. I'll tell you a secret. // The secret is: don't hold back. I know -- it doesn't work -- you tried it. But did you really? When it's time not to hold back, you shouldn't hold back at all." -- COMING

COMING

Paul Williams

First published in 1977, COMING is a book-length prose poems for lovers about the spiritual energy released in the act of sexual love.

from page 50:


We are ladders
In coming, we climb toward each other
Toward an absolute
Climax
Certainly
Higher each time
Until we fall
into the infinite.


We are falling through the sky
Toward the stars.


Absolute fulfilment
Is emptiness
Reborn.

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