By: Manal Rabiey
The embrace is Adam’s eternal attempt to draw Eve back to his chest, to reclaim the missing rib, and restore his heart’s first wholeness. In that moment, the body becomes a sanctuary, and the arms turn into arches that hold both heaven and earth together. Every curve of his arms is nothing but an endless return to the instant when the single being was divided into two.
It is not merely the meeting of two bodies, but the celebration of the soul returning to its origin. As if the whole universe breathes anew when they come together, as if rivers return to their sources, and mountains lean upon their deepest roots. In the embrace, all noise falls silent, all boundaries vanish, and there is no longer “I” or “you,” but one being reclaiming its first voice.
When he holds her, Adam hears a whisper rising from within: “Here you are, returning to me, and here I am, returning to you.” He feels the warmth of her breath sinking into his neck, the rhythm of her heart pounding against his chest like sacred drums. Her fragrance scatters across his shoulders like the breath of newborn flowers, and he loses himself in the silk of her flowing hair. In that moment, there is no exile, no trace of wounds, for the embrace alone can dissolve the distances fate once decreed. It is a silent promise that love is stronger than loss, and that solitude is never an eternal decree.
The embrace is a journey through time, a return to the silence before words, to the sacred stillness that preceded creation. There, within the warmth of entwined arms and the trembling of bodies melting into each other, the memory of paradise is revealed: not a paradise of trees and rivers, but the vastness created when two hearts merge. A paradise that pulses beneath the skin, radiates within the chest, and turns a fleeting instant into eternity.
In the end, the embrace remains a cosmic act, a prayer unspoken in words but uttered by body and soul. It is a small ascension into the eternal, a testament to love’s power to overcome separation, and to restore humanity to its first truth: to be complete through the other.
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