27 December 2012

Can You





















How can you love like rain falls
unbound, ever fresh while painting
the setting sun on your breath
and blood on your lips....
can you love the bruise
as it heals. Can you.

Love in the shadows
of the ceaseless heart
taking all of yourself with the hand
shaped for holding.

Love in your unpreparedness
longing to trust the unbidden silence
or the heart that weeps....when understanding
lies pressed under the weight of sacrifice.

Love when ashamed to spill
from your own edges
without fruit for your effort
and there is only falling....back
into your own beneficence
from your imperfect gaze,
while slipping
from the edge of your plans.


Can you love like rain falls
ever fresh, unbound
when intimacy arrives
unannounced....love
like your body
wanting life, receiving

the Life in all life.


How deeply you love,
how gently you are living
Is how gracefully
you can.


~Candali 2012

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