I would have stepped

1/6/02 - 2/6/02

I would have stepped into a world that all enfolds:
where love and justice kiss, my soul and yours
with one another so infused and open eyed
that barriers melt in pouring out myself.

There fear ends.  Guilt is emptied out.
Wounds are no more. But could I leave behind
the awe-filled love that tends those wounds,
the words whose kindness only lives
despite our separate lives?

So I will hold my jewel in my heart,
as you hold yours, and thereby stand apart,
discovered beauty, wondrous stone, whose grace
flames out in adoration, undissolved,

and treasure growth together, hold each glimpse
of deeper beauties, deeper hid - each opening
into a greater world, in which both stone and ocean
shall with what enfolds them both conspire.