You shall love the Holy One your God
with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.
—Matthew 22.37
Beautiful One,
even walking toward you
I am falling.
Even as I sit beside you
something in my gut drops,
lets go
inside you.
I think about you in night moments
with desire that isn’t craving.
I look for you everywhere.
I see your arms around me
until I see them.
I feel your breath on me
inside me.
I am told to fear, to worship,
to believe, to save my soul,
but that’s not love.
I forget my soul
for you.
I’m wounded by your sadness,
revived by your hope.
I want happiness for you.
Ah, what I would do for you!
I want for you all beauty,
all joy, all wholeness,
for you, beloved,
for you.
—October 27, 2017