I've been here a long, long time
sadly and proudly alone, it seems
blessed and cursed by free vision
relating in but bits and pieces
I accepted this, reaching for no one
yet somehow kept looking around me

and I saw you there, so long lying still
a vague tumult on my horizon
hinting of sharp lights and shadows
politely contained, it seemed
sadly and proudly alone
I nodded to you with a few distant smiles
and held myself to my lostness
but as light rose in me, I dared to approach
and stepped to your circle of power

You unfolded slowly and grandly
rising and falling, scattering, gathering
majestic in chaos and ordering
sweeping toward my amazed knowing--
I found myself in us
unlimited
and feelings grew ever greater

I've held to patience with you, with myself
and mostly I hold it well
but I struggle at times with this passion
and remind myself, there's the rest of the world
to not be tied to this boundlessness
so I try smaller life, and find it enough
to go on, and think of you when I have time

and it's not a bad place to be, here
together in mind ever greater
and it's not too hard to enjoy it
when I forget of the future and just simply be
putting off all our vastness to say, to learn, to become
to simply see you, and smile on in bliss
saying ever how wholly I love you.





© G.Cassel 2004