Understanding Never

I never gave up calling your name,
it was just done through the tremendous space of silence.
So when you did not answer,
I understood…

I never betrayed my hopes for you,
it was just done through the faith I maintained toward those I loved.
So when I found they were not you,
I understood…

I never doubted myself,
it was just done to encourage my search for truth.
So when I found one drop of certainty in an ocean of doubt,
I understood….

You came to me in all names
It was my silence that spoke to your soul without condition…
So when our lips met,
You understood me.

Through your faith in me,
You always followed close – gathering tears on trails I’d blazed for others
So when the light in my eyes illuminates your own path
You will understand me.

Even in a river of endless possibilities,
You will be quenched by one discovery, left in a curling eddy of love…
While, fathomless currents of truths,
Disappear as myths over the edge of disbelief.

Mysteries Need Not Be Mysterious

You enter me through mysteries
That come to rest inside my heart
Like obsidian shadows from another soul
You brush gently along within me,
Softening luminescence -
an intuition of who we are – not told
You breath, Leaving a trail of nostalgic aromas
Of honeysuckle and dew on the moss
You glisten along the nexus of moment to moment

Like pearls strung together and touching sweetly
Clattering like chimes, pattering
A string of quiet satin kisses
that go on incompletely
From distances beyond what may be measured
With provenance in the tears of angels
On pillows of time
I dream awake, entranced
I enter you, through mysteries
that cannot be seen, not blind

And while bells don’t ring it clear to us
They blend and blend…and blend
To glow from brilliant eyes –
low chimes sound like mysteries not mysterious.