Have you ever walked with the morning sun?
Laughing at clumsy roof tops and sleepy trees
In their old-fashioned gold sprinkled hats?
Watching the powerful urge to start
Beam out of your body into the new day?
Have you ever melted with the moonlight’s silvery rain?
Ever so quietly
As if you belonged solely to the night
From the moment you were born?
Have you ever held newborn babies tight?
Feeling the anxiety of the unknown
Chased away with the intensity of life
And the glow of the desire to be
Emanating from their warm sanguine cheeks?
Have you ever felt breathless?
On a quiet forsaken road
Tied to a remote magnetic horizon
Pulling you all the way in
To something you have no words for
Something behind the mountains you know you can touch
If you reached deep enough inside?
Have you ever swam at sundown
In a dreamy little lake
With dragonflies racing above the head
Friendly sea weeds playing with your toes
And the sun’s molten red glow
Brushing against your bare skin?
Have you ever been washed off the shore?
By a giant giant wave
Feeling with the tip of your fingers
In that chaotic moment
The boarder between fear and joy
In that tucked away corner of your mind
Where losing control and freedom
Compete for your attention?
Have you ever loved?
July 15, 2000