Flow

Love
runs riot
through the soul,
exciting dreams and possibility,
fixing not
on idle fantasy
nor egotistic
misappropriation
of emotion’s truth,
love’s sacred source

but giving voice
to joy
uncontainable;
spilling
into many lives
with laughter
echoing
through time and space;
tumbling down
cascading life’s dramatic courses
seaward,

heading home;
forever
gaining depth
so that through love,
love's steady flow,
we share
what comes to pass
through love
that builds in power,
swells
by loving deeply

so that
as love broadens,
deepens,
grows forever stronger,
we carry with us
each
and every possibility of love
towards the sea
where all loves meet
at last
to merge and mix,
to move
as love’s eternal tides
have merged
and mixed
and moved
through all the ages
past

and yet to come.

Life’s tides
command attention
to the never-ending flow
of love
which forces
life’s
inexorable
passage home
through landscapes of eternity.