to love well

Learning to love well is a journey
– a long, delightful, painful journey
that I’ve just begun
but already I feel
the rough edges being abraded
by contact with other rough edges
where your weakness and strength
comes into contact
with my weakness and strength
and I am amazed how you are
changing me
and how I am
changing you.

for this, it seems, is the journey
of loving well:
that we change together
because of
and along with
one another.

so here’s to the journey
may we travel well
and may our love
be long
and beautiful
as we change
and grow
together.

awake at last

I never knew
how much my heart needed healing
never knew how unawake my body was
til you touched it
healing,
waking me
to the life locked within
— you unlocked it
without knowing what you did —
with love in your eyes
you unlocked my heart
unlocked my body
and I
am finally
awake
at last