Monday, September 19, 2011

A Poem for You


There are no prerequisites for love
Nothing but being
God loves our being

Love is a grace
We do not earn it
We can do nothing to attain it
Any striving for it
after a time
merely impedes its flow

We bathe in love 
as in the air around us
We have but to breathe it in and
breathe it out 
circulating it
As we breathe it 
so we shall receive it
Effortlessly

It is an illusion that love comes from others
We all exist surrounded by it
As the ocean surrounds the islands

Run out into its abundance and play in it
As children dance and puddle stomp in the rain

If you knew
If you saw
You could open your mouth and drown in it

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