i love you

Circumspect whispers blowing from on high.  They are plain, prophetic,

even less than a breeze, they play across my eyelids turning skin into dust.

Into whirlwinds, carried on the beats, and breath of wings.

They sing, they sigh and they float within my iris.

They kiss the drums as they are beaten,  threshing the grain that becomes our daily bread.

The sacrament of flesh no longer holds sway, we have become conscious of what we’ve known to be true.

Peace in the sense that I have always been enough,

My Eyes Are Staying Open

Incredible truths that bring grace in the chaos, burn the walls that I have allowed to contain me.

Their smoke coats the eaves in my head and I scrub them, clean,

Their ash mixed with old sin, I use as the paint, as tears cut their tracks in my skin.

There is always more to do.

An endless process, I see it as a quest,

I stand before it, staring deep into it’s glass, and see myself staring back.

Have you ever fallen into your own arms?

Do you know what it is to stare into your own eyes and say, “Forever, I love you.”?

-Peace in the sense that I love who I am. I exist in totality-

I know that this has always been within me.

4/4/2022