
I was tongue tied
When you asked me
What I want from
The universe
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Because I don’t know
What else I could possibly want
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What else I could possibly wish for
When I have been gifted so much.
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I spent years
Wanting my life to be different
Wanting to be born
Into a different body on a different day
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Unaware of all the love
I have had the privilege to receive.
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All the moments of beauty
That have been waiting for me.
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All the time the sun
Kissed my face and I didn’t even
Notice her lips.
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All the times the birds
Sung for me
And the miracle of another day
But I was too busy listening
To all the reasons this life wasn’t enough.
All the reasons I didn’t belong.
All the reasons we were unworthy
Of belonging –
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To each other.
To these moments.
To these trees and this sky.
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Perhaps what it is
That I want from the universe
Is countless moments of remembering.
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I want the opportunity to love
And be loved
Just as we are
Imperfections
Tattered hearts and all.
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I want moments of connection
With myself, the forest, fellow humans
That teach me
That love and compassion
Are infinite resources.
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I want the world
To touch me so deeply
That I fall to my knees in awe
As the sunlight streams
Through our hair.
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Strangers walking down the street
Unaware that we have been
The same life all along.
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I want to live.
I want to find adventures and joy
In the smallest things.
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And I want us –
The universe
To remind each other
When we get lost
Of all the beauty
We have yet to become.
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