( Lily who I loved years before I met her… reminding me that love is not distant dependent – not ever)
Your voice wakens me
from the deadly trance
that has become my life.
You lift me up through
pure feeling.
Consistency at last.
I take flight in boundless joy –
The knowledge that
this is right –
you and I
coming together
bound by bears –
an irrational connection
so deep it defies
explanation,
until I remember
that bears always knew
what we did not.
