Sunday, December 30, 2012

Enveloping Me in LOVE

It's unexplainable
real-er than anything I can see, taste, touch
more true than the friend who was just standing there...
   in the cold of the night 
   twenty-six inches from my face
a complete reality upon which I long to gaze
but through the veil for this season is enough

You offer dignity to me in it
belonging
wholeness
worth

Beauty radiates as I step into it
like a Rocky Mountain sunset
like insatiable laughter
like a mother after she's given birth

And I feel that beauty
as if it has been mine all along
it sweeps over me
pours into me
overflows from the inmost part of me

I belong to it and it to me
we were separated, that beauty and me
there was darkness, unkindness, incoherent deceit
lies took root, I didn't know what to believe

Yet now I smile at my sadness
I still don't comprehend where this road goes
but You hold my hand and walk me toward life
You lead me along a sturdy pathway
enveloping me, all the while, in LOVE.

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