But, Of Course, I Am Not

and it could be accomplished by changing the comma on the first line to a semicolon - thus implying two separate but connected thoughts.

I see filter as removing the unwanted and distilling as selecting the wanted as in trial by fire (the distillation process)... in this case by passion.

So this is what a relationship really is, isn't it? You bring me something I don't have: love, passion, etc. and take away something I have but don't want: sadness, loneliness, emptiness, etc.

You have very neatly caught all of this is a few well chosen words. I didn't read it as if distill and filter were parts of one thing but companion processes that tell of the yin and yang in all human desires.

Sad, but beautiful. (Think nothing but good thoughts the rest of the day!)

Regards, Jack

A little bit of, 'If only...'

post that poem Rybka. "Words of His", if you care to know.

I must be loosing what little of my mind I have left!

Anna,

All I really want to say is just take it literal.

"O, to be such a love as he would filter my body's sadness,

[Then]

Distill it into something useful"

You see? I think it works :-S Two separate processes yes, but together could they not.. Filter out the sadness, then take that sadness and distill it into something great? Well maybe not, I'll think on it. :)

So thanks everyone though for the replies.

And actually, Rybka I do have something for you tea drinkers;) I'll post it momentarily.

A good early morning read, but waht about us tea drinkers. >?(((><