~when i ask, ‘will you still love me tomorrow’?
if i ask, ‘did you or have you loved me the way i do you’?
and if i ask, ‘do you know that love does not belong to anyone,
to anything but it is the fiber of all, the essence of everything,
if you understand this, then i accept when you tell me you love me,
that you love me as i do you’~
~as i now walk this path, my choice of path,
remain quiet and ‘still’, where still is not
being physically immobile but being a receptor
to all of Life’s aesthetics; visual, auditory, tactile,
etcetera, which surround me, in and with every
step taken on this path~
love that mine eyes open in the morning
and i remember that i have loved and just
maybe have also been, in this mundane
sojourn, a fortuitous longevity of life
that my heartbeat was in sync with my
siblings and lifelong friends i've made,
‘Mi Mamasita’ in giving me birth, now she
too has been reborn onto an eternal
transcendent realm
i love my partner, my wife, of thirty-seven
years and how she has made my heart
beat with a flurry and my spirit dance, she
has opened mine eyes to a joy that replaced
a sadness within
i love the trees that sway in wind and are
home to birds that sing, squirrels that play,
the flora that tickle their rooted feet, and
the stream that runs along waving with
many ‘hi’s’ of ripples running by
i love the ocean and its tides that roar upon
the shore In sunlight by day shimmying with
silver delight and in the noir of night it becomes
a mirror to the stars as the moonbeams kiss
the sea
i love that i have been given this gift of life with
eyes to witness, mine ears to listen to its music,
hands to touch and feet to run, a spirit of dance,
but most of all, a heart that beats in rhythm with
Love~
~i write words so that my heart and spirit may purge
the tethers of the mundane, especially those of
sadness and pain left behind from your absence,
the void, the grief
have read the words written from those before me
whose wisdom garner the notion that life is to be lived
by embracing all its fibers of calm and joy as well as
those of sorrow and pain, being witness to the verve
of Life~
