If you are dark,
Then let me wallow in darkness
Caressed by the shadows
Of time gone by.
If you are light,
Then pour the sun onto my skin
Blistering and burning
A love once had.
If you are silence,
Then I will breathe
An exchange of two worlds
Which complete another.
If you are happiness,
Then hear me laughing with the sun rise
And crying as rain falls.
We connect through the elements
That brought us together.
Both this life and next,
A loosened grip
Tightens
With every bird call.
Never lost and never found,
The bumblebee dances above the dahlias.
And there,
I know you.
The same force that separates
Is that which ties.
A merging union
Between mind and matter
Known only
By a rope once climbed.
The ladder beneath our feet
Disintegrates with every step
Just as the morning breeze
Asks the Autumn leaves to fall.
Each droplet of rain
That pours from the sky
Both celebrates and mourns.
Nourishing pastures
Of each lonely creature
That takes respite
In a wet Spring day.
The wind sings kindly
To the dahlias,
The co-creation of a symphony,
Held afloat,
By a single
Echoing
Buzz.