A Letter For You
I never knew that love was like this.
I thought that love was showers and streams of happy meetings and good intentions,
But you show me that love is an ocean.
And it is as if you have unleashed that ocean to pour over me, overtaking me with its weight.
YOUR love is heavy.
It covers me.
It suspends me.
It moves me.
And that same overwhelming love that rushes over me and envelopes me, holds me tenderly.
The same love that pools around me, stretches farther than I can see
Into a horizon that meets both sunrises and sunsets.
It unfolds like waves unroll themselves on the shore.
It is as familiar to me as my own hand and as new as the wonder of moonlight on the sea.
It is both brand new and as constant as an old friend.
I forgot that you were my best friend.
Even still, the swell of your ocean, the rising tide of your affection
Reaches out to me on the sand and it remembers me well.
Your love knows me and has waited all these years to sweep me up again.
I do not know how to resist it.
I can only surrender to it as it breaks over me.
And I find myself loving the undertow, caught up in the billows of you.
So, here I am wanting to be pulled out farther, wanting to get lost in you, to sink into you.
For, you flood my reason.
You wash away my inhibition.
You invade the whole of me and it leaves me wanting more of you.
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