Bones and heart

I held your aging hands

Tenderly it seems

As everything inside of me

Felt as if it was breaking open

These days as I age

Taking time to sit quoetly

Reading poetry

In the afternoon sum

World’s of understandimg open up within me

An appreciation for how deep the journey goes

And how blindly we live

Most of it

Today a butterfly circled around me

As I stood in the sun

Close to a blooming geranium

And then felt you so close

After that..these beautiful words

I read

‘But I want to know how to live what’s left

With my eyes open and my hands open..

I want to stand at the door in the rain.

Listening sniffing, gaping

Fearful and joyous

Like an idiot before God’

Made me think of you

How quickly it seems the time passes

And how long it seems to take

For our minds to finally surrender

To the buried knowing

Of love

Living inside our bones

And heart

And when it rises

Let’s us open ourselves

As it washes

Over us

Around us

And through us

Cleansing us of both

Ignorance and illusion