My eternal beloved

My Eternal Beloved

I have been yours since my first cosmic breath

was exhaled inside the primordial waters of your dark womb.

You my love have caressed my many faces with your southerly wind fingertips.

Your sacred waters have bathed my many forms across oceans and timeless rivers.

You my love are the millions of flowers that have reached my gaze

You are the endless chorus of birds that have serenaded the fabric of my hearing

Each note the call of your devotion

You my love are the resplendent hues that I forget until I remember

You are the hundred shades of green

You are lime, jade, olive and emerald.  

Beloved your arms have embraced me with moss and twigs

your ancient roots have carried my secrets into underground cathedrals

I have planted my dreams inside your soil

and each time I return to you I forget the eternal love we have already shared

I forget our history together 

Our beginnings of time

I forget that every happening 

And all unfoldment is engraved upon your landscape

I forget that you are a record for my many hearts

For the multitude of skins and bodies that have sheathed me.

You are a keeper of the countless 

My endless births and deaths 

Failings and transformations

for the billions of memories that I no longer recall

You hold them all for me inside rock, bark and clay.  

Underneath roots and waves

Between petals 

Ours is an ancient love.  

Eternal beloved.