Dear Love

You have approached me with so many faces that sometimes I don’t recognize you. But thank God I’ve found you. This life would be bleak without you. You have broken through the barriers of unfeeling and pain and found me whenever you’ve wanted to. You have never let me down. You have never imposed conditions upon me, you have just been who you are and with your being, merely through your existence have I experienced glimpses of the wonderful deepest aspects of life.

You are my prayer and the answer to it. My prayer is that I should never take you lightly or for granted. That I should do nothing less than worship you--you who has given me life and the reason for life. You remain underneath all that I am and all that I do and even my reason for doing and being. I try to understand you but don’t so I write endless words to you trying to explain my reasons for needing you. I languish in the colors you create, in the storms of excitement which you let swirl around me. I feel you not as static but constantly moving, creating, forming new worlds, new words, new explanations for things.

But it’s as if I can never keep up with you because of the ways in which you change your face. You appear here and there and always where I least expect you. Part of your endless interest is in trying to see who you are today and where you will be. I know I will always find you but I never know where or what you will look like or what your sound might be. I am in awe. You have landed me flat on my back watching you show off your powers in endless ways. Always I am breathless just to feel you in my heart. I can feel you so strong and vibrant within me that I sometimes want to rip open my chest and unleash you on the world--to let you level entire villages and towns and cities with your strength.

I will never forget the night in Switzerland when I awakened in bed and saw your golden breath that filled my room, so thick I could cut it with a knife. Then, when I questioned you, you showed me how you flowed from out of the building I was in across the long valley and disappeared behind the mountains where you were flowing out to blanket the world. What you showed me was your undeniable strength and power to heal.

As a force in the universe you are the strongest, the most beautiful, the most constant. You exist for us to know you, to use you, to feel you.

You were, you are, you will be.