Be the Wind that carries You

Close your eyes
and be the bird
upon the wind
stretch your wings
and be the wind
that carries you

Close your eyes
and be the air
that moves the wind
abandon your boundaries
and be the breath
that births the being

Returning Home

Here are the sailors in drowsy skies
softly ferrying
a day’s remembrance gathered in
with sails and silver oars

Revival

You held your breath for so long
eventually, I had to draw your essence
out of you, and a relieved sigh
escaped from your cold blue lips

Awakening

Heaven was hibernating in your eyes
until I, with my spring,
lured it back into the world

First Light

Dawn is like the moment
before a thought
turns into spoken words

A hole in the wall

His soul
was knocking
on the walls
of her heart

and she finally
took courage
and carved a hole
in the wall
just big enough
to let him in

I love you

I love you
Among all things
Gone wrong
I love you

In the silent departures
In longing
And belonging
I love you

In the falling leaves
And under maple trees
I love you

In the footsteps left behind
And the ones not yet made
I love you

Walk with me
My love,
Let us walk
Together
Further and further
Into life
Deeper and deeper
Into love

Love is…

Love is the blossom
that grows not apart
that winks like a shadow
on the sun’s burning heart

Love is the softness
that tames yet remains wild
breaking or mending
yet is innocent like a child

It holds not a difference
it tears not apart
it gathers all passings
in seams of tender scars

Love is the asking
that needs no reply
bruising and healing
stays or walks by

Love is the chamber
that holds no regrets
it keeps and releases
it rises and sets

Love is the gift
you cannot return
it is not destined
for ashes
with immortality
it blazes and burns

Nightlight

In the nightlight
Love undresses
layer by layer
until
it stands naked
holding nothing
but itself

Letting go

I held you
tightly
like a cluster
of memories
then
I let you go
and the wind
carried you
away from me
but the memories
fell back
into my heart

and then,
that voice in the wind:

“Here is the love
from which I will return.”