A poem for today

 

A poem for today:

The light in the air is full of body, 

pungent and reflective with shimmers of joy. 

Perhaps all is good today, in this moment of stillness and breath.

The leaves, they fly around, circling in the gentle wind.

They dance together in commotion while I gaze on in deep stillness.

It's these moments, these feelings that prompt the passionate love within to rise up and stream out of me-

radiating the delicious light that today has brought forth.

And so I smile, as sometimes I am too afraid to do.

Don't we all just crave connection?

A friendly face, a word of kindness, a glance of pure love?

I believe in these acts, they burn within as a duty to perform.

A responsibility of loving my fellow beings as myself and as the lights of G!d in which they are.

And so I open up, even though sometimes it is so hard to do,

even though sometimes everything within me holds me back.

But today, in this warm inviting light there is no hard place within. 

The softening is such blessing-

reminders always of your love to me and this journey.

And so I must go on, spreading your love and wisdom and that pureness within that spills forth so smoothly on days such as this.

[written in the shade of a tree in a moment of reflection, a few days ago]