As Warm As Tears

In 1991, Phil Keaggy released a CD entitled "Beyond Nature", which was based entirely on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis. The album is entirely instrumental, and is some of the most beautiful guitar playing I've ever heard. One of the tracks is called "As Warm As Tears", so named from a poem written by Lewis. The song and the poem are below, and if you are wired like I am, you will find the combination sublime. So hit play and read away!

Love's As Warm As Tears

Love's as warm as tears, love is tears:

Pressure within the brain,

Tension at the throat,

Deluge, weeks of rain,

Haystacks afloat,

Featureless seas between

Hedges, where once was green.

Love's as fierce as fire, love is fire:

All sorts - infernal heat

Clinkered with greed and pride,

Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,

Laughing, even when denied,

And that empyreal flame

Whence all loves came.

Love's as fresh as spring, love is spring:

Bird-song hung in the air,

Cool smells in a wood,

Whispering "Dare! Dare!"

To sap, to blood,

Telling "Ease, safety, rest,

Are good; not best."

Love's as hard as nails, love is nails:

Blunt, thick, hammered through

The medial nerves of One

Who, having made us, knew

The thing he had done,

Seeing (with all that is)

Our cross, and His.