The Brief Commentary

Here it is, the little commentary I promised. These are only my thoughts so weigh them for what that's worth.
Okay, first I think this poem is about a couple who is having a very difficult time communicating with each other. Matthew explains why this is so and further offers the remedy. He opens with the couple after they have quarreled. The speaker is crying and says to the other, "Please be honest with me, speak to me, though not in words but with your eyes. Let me drink of your love as I look into your soul." In other words, words are cheap and smiles can lie, but the eye is the channel of one's soul. It is there that man is seen for what he is. Next he asks "Is love so weak that it cannot express itself? Are even lovers unable to speak from the depths of their love?" How is this so? Open your mouth, take off the shackles of fear that prevent you from being who are. Do not become so distracted by the world and all its responsibilities to forget that you have a soul that needs and wants something which the world cannot give. "Lips unchained"-- this is the cure but how does one extricate these inner bonds? Through finding love which is found through discovering this inner "stream" that runs deep in the hearts of men. In my interpretation this could refer to sanctifying grace. So let this living stream of heavenly dew come and vivify your heart. Cast off the chains of worldly expectations and embrace the life of love that is ebbing in your soul. So few there are who care enough to pursue this living stream which they taste in moments of curiosity though only for a passing fancy. There are "nameless feelings" forever unexpressed that burn in the hearts of men yet they are not able to be expressed in truth because they are not pure, as they are not united with the cooling streams of living waters that make all things true. But what then is there that can save men from abandoning this inner grace, this inner calling to a deeper purer love? Through touching the hand of one who possesses this love; by catching the sight of another whose eyes reveal the beauty and the power and the love this buried stream of living love contains. In finding this love, one sees oneself and it is then that the eyes of men (or women) roll back into their soul to seek this stream for himself so that he too can share in the love which he sees beaming through the eyes of this other. Now he can speak, now he can love, now he can know what it is to live. What he means he says and what he now knows he can now share. Here this man has found himself, has found his love and has lost his chains. The inner streams of grace and love comforts his heart for alas he has found the meaning of existence and the way which leads to eternal happiness, which all can be found through the eyes of God's pure creatures.
Alright, now I do think there is more to be said but it is getting late and I have to return to the grind tomorrow which means go to bed. For now this will have to do. In closing I want to wish everyone a blessed Passion Sunday. I wish you could all be here to partake in Mater Ecclesiae's liturgy, it is most divine. We'll just keep praying things progress in Rome and maybe one day the full liturgical Triduum won't be an exception but a rule. Ciao...