SMASHED SAINT

Time grows in my belly A sweet secret swelling Highlighting the Noble Infinity That longs inside me. And it is a pure longing, A raw agony, An exquisite sorrow Of naked fire, naked Untouched by survival and strife. It is a precise movement, Desire That only creates and never destroys. A pain unadulterated by Death,…

Love you Set free Birthing Space Like orbits And galaxies To encompass This exquisite peace And the false ones Fall to the ground Discarded and lovely In their expiration Their purpose–to fall Silent in the Face of Love– Having been fulfilled Love You Set Free

I lifted a thought, Like a shy tendril of new green Or a slow unfurling of sunrise. And it was a thought of you. Up you went, past the crease between my eyes, Smoothing the frown that shades my brow Sifting through the queenly streaks on my crown You flew straight into the film of…

My bride, my dove, my perfect one I dream of you in eternity to be more dazzling than a supernova exploding in the sweetness of your breathing, I’ll whisper all the mysteries held in beautiful paradox and watch them blaze alive in your eyes, tongue, tears—oh center of my heart! You sometimes run and hide…

there are some whose hearts make the words they carry glimmer more than their weight in gold, diamonds, rubies and sapphire there are some within whose hearts lurk shadows and veils that mar and stain their words, make them stagger, limp, sigh, and expire

  figuring it out to see a person is to love that person eyes to see are eyes of love, acceptance, mercy, compassion, grace, joy, hope and faith.   eyes to see a person is to love that person, to be completely and irrevocably in love with the all-ness, fullness and redeemed brokenness of God’s…