Quote:Thank you for clarifying that. Thats why I was not sure which one you meant. I think it's a good idea. But, I think you should have intertwined them together. The way you did it, the land comes first then the people. Do I make any sense to you?
The idea was to make the reader think that they were reading about nature before realizing that it was actually about people, and then realize what the previous lines actually meant if they hadn't already.
The second stanza is kind of a stretch...it's the only one that doesn't mean a whole lot, perhaps that we will be together for a long time, or that we will have children together. The primary purpose of that stanza is to mislead the reader at first though!
The third and fourth stanzas are where it starts to get sexual...the references are obvious! The idea was that our bodies are most cherished by each other rather than ourselves, as echoed by stanza 6.
Stanzas 7 and 8 were meant to remind that WE are not our bodies, what we are is really just the inside part...our minds...which is why I point to the temple (the forehead) which is above the clouds, meaning that it is beyond the earthly portion (our bodies)