MY SALVATION

On the day you appeared I remember:
the beaming smile and twinkling eyes.

Your loving spirit
warmed the room, filling it with charm.

Remembering the days before you:
I was bitter and afraid of life itself.

Smoldering embers of a gentle benevolent
soul were kept alive and nurtured by your example.

Loving me so at a time when at the core
I had come to believe myself unlovable, lighting the way
that I might discover the joy of living.

Standing in the tides of triumphant self-realization
I have finally begun to see.
To see with new eyes the
eternal truth that is my birth-rite.

You have been my salvation:
my direction and my obsession.
I walk alone along the path
that love draws from nothing and everything that we are.

Smouldering embers kept alive
by your nurtured, patterned and unconditional love.

Wading in the tides of triumphant self-realization,
struggling with obessive depression; soaring to
mountainous heights from a stagnant meadow of malaise.

Your love has granted me boundless joys in these limited days.
Share a moment as I drink in your legacy the very gift of life.