When I Say That I Love You

listening for the hopeful hush

When I say that I love you,
I mean that all I want
is for you to be well
and to know peace
and joy, firsthand.

There is no
divine demand
that you must believe
or do this, that or the other.
I am no narcissistic father
or punishing mother.

I Am the Hopeful Hush
of Dawn's Gold Awakening.
I Am your first breath
of crisp morning air.
I Am the sudden burst
of Soul-Brightness
that eases the heaviness
of the last moment's care.

 I Am the Inexhaustible Good
and the Irrationally Fair.
I Am the Fingers of Gentle Breeze
lovingly stroking your tousled hair.

I Am Nowhere and Everywhere.

I Am the Exhale
that you set free,
for there is no need
to cling to Me.
I will not leave, nor forsake.

Find Me again
in each breath you take,
and yet again and more
when breathing ceases
and all your gravity releases~
dissolving all your precious pieces;
becoming ground and grass and grain.

I'll love your body
then as rain.
When you have relinquished
all your pain;
and have become
a Droplet of My Breath again.

For reasons both personal and collective, I am presently having difficulty finding or forming words beyond those that well up in my soul, so I will leave this to stand on its own today. 

Holding “All The Things” with great love and care; and hope that deep healing, justice, love and peace may prevail. 

~ Cheryl Anne