Love Source

My love for you is strong and sweet because it’s made of things so much bigger than me...

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My love for you is strong and sweet
because it’s made of things
so much bigger than me.

It comes from each of the waves I’ve been with,
crashing through me,
tens of thousands of times across my life.
Their perfume brine
sings in my marrow.

My love springs excitedly
from jewel green lawns
still warm at the end of the day
smelling of Earthen purpose.

I laid on that carpet with friends or alone,
feeling held and free,
weightless
floating into the sky.

All of the animals I’ve known
are there,
teeth and beaks and scales and matted fur.
They have given me so much warmth
each one shines out from within me.
I’m just a balled up cluster
of their licking and chewing and sniffing and pouncing and flying.

Love comes from watching clumps of embers tumble
as split cedar succumbs in an outdoor fire
in the dead of winter
with my daughter wrapping my arms around her
making me the nights blanket
that she will always feel within her,
that will feed her growing love
to share with a beautiful person like you
someday.

All our love is bound together
by the ways our world speaks through us.
We are hooves dancing through mud,
caterpillars fattening on leaves,
cliffs falling into the sea.

All of it - love.