Married at a Distance

You asked, after all.

So now being brave

Is about moving in Spirit connection

while living far apart.  I can do this.

I’ll will it.  Keeping my heart bright

In the absence of your light however

Is the Will of God.

How many devoted wives have done this?

Lived in this remote wilderness of spiritual unclaimed territory

A lot I bought, on earth, here,

Rife with the wild pungent forest, unnamable creatures lurking

The timeless sway of grasses, like honeyed thoughts of you

Here, the days filled with the sound of a chuckling stream,

The glint of sun-spangle on the ripples:  these also, memories.

At night, the moon, just a sliver of distant joy alight, the stars too

So far aloft

But winking at me like the eyes of angels,

Grinning in the clean dark cold.

I have blankets for sleep on this silent, humming acreage

The wooly colors vibrant, soothing in their itch: I can tell by their scratch

I am still alive with this love.

My lone lungs feel your breath fill them, right now, and in my subsequent exhale

Is the knowledge of your acceptance, right here at our lips

You, taking in my air, the lively peace of Trust, your way of love.