i love you
with all my heart and soul
with a love that moves blindly into the future
creating space for love to grow
nourished by lapis tears of joy
at the beauty unfolding
in this life we enjoy
a field of lotuses in the making
patience, faith, hope, calm, quiet, centered, growing,
open, passionate, radiant, trembling
the perfection of peace is attained
through recognition of the absolute
beauty of reality
its sorrows and its joys
without acceptance of both
we would starve from the emptiness
Sunrise in Fort Lauderdale, Summer-1996