Tending What’s True

‘in longing you close your eyes, but in wonder you open them’. (Myra Shapiro)

Today somehow, don’t ask me

how (I won’t be able to answer)

for just a minute, trust me

that was long enough, my moist

weary eyes gazed with a feeling

I shall call awe

(yes with open eyes!)

into the cave underneath

these steep cliffs of stone,

this cave

carved from mountain, a sentinel

who’s stood through eons of storm,

sunshine and fog,

where I looked in wonder,

and saw

in this dark womb 

of our longed~for belonging

your eyes glancing back

with the tenderest infinite longing..