Two Breaths, Uniting

Your breath is peace
Into my heart, into my lungs…
Into my life,
Finding the depth of me, finding…

What is often gone, missing, absent,
As I vanish, as I fade… away, away…
Then you! You, my full presence,
My best friend, my growing peace.

And so you are becoming me,
But not just me… the best of me,
And I you. We are becoming ourselves,
And we are becoming, together, this life... in joy, in hope, in love.

My head clears, my body breathes
Because you are near it,
Because you fully hear it,
Because you desire me… and I you.

So much left, so much life, so much… together.
Roaming the corners of earth,
Roaming... each other. Together. Long after…
All of this. We will be. We will love. We will become…

Together. Our hearts. Our lives. Our breath.
And we will sing our own tunes,
From our own instruments, our own bodies,
Our own callings, our own lives… Together.

(Feb. 13, 2004)

Empty Thinker

Do I mean to daze
into this empty haze
without a care or thought

Like a window
without a glare
just fixed there

A stump, a post
a fallen pecan
under tall grass

Perfect but fallen
for none to find
ever so untouched, so lost?

Velocity & the Crow

Crying in the distance
Through the doors, down the hall
The baby cries, uncertain

And I listen, as I tarry
From the work to fill my day
Weighed down

If I were on a cloud
Would I sink
Or bounce?

If I were a crow
Would I squawk
Or sing?

Would I fly around
And dream
Or sit in a tree, blinking.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Where does the path
take us who
will not walk its center

But insist on a
funny swagger
a silly stumble

From side to side
turning around
returning from whence I came

And back again
and off the map
exploring?