Been hoping to hope for you
Missed missing you
Cast sidelong glances at sidelong glances
The mirror dance we stumbled through as though blind
Was a sketch of an idea of an attempt at a prelude
But the second act is much better than the first
Friend, will I catch your eye across a crowded, hushed room,
See it shine with laughter, like radio on our private channel?
Who else has this frequency? Join in! All together, now
In this love of love
Joy that has no beginning
How could I imagine an end?
What is the leaf to the leaf?
What is the leaf to one chloroplast in one cell?
And what are you and I, God knows,
In this tree with roots so deep,
trunk so broad,
canopy so high,
that we all fit…
somewhere?
How can it be,
when the tree
is nothing to it,
nothing without it,
that the light loves it, too?
whose love comes before love.
Plunge me into shame, soul
of joy. Touch me,
Only to show how untouched I am. See me,
Only so I curl in on myself. Wrung
with loneliness I drip into the ocean. Fired
with despair, I am a speck of sand flowing into glass. You,
you cannot be so far that I won't reach for you. And I,
in the dark, don't even need to close my eyes to see your face.