Stumbling Home
Today when you walked in you took my breath away
Your aquamarine eyes prism the light with a clarity that pierces veils
Their intensity is tamed only by the tangled cliff of your eyebrows
Where every so often a renegade strand makes a break for it
When I met you I didn’t believe in fate
All I knew was that you were deeply familiar-
Like a pair of favorite slippers
I’d been putting on every morning of my life
Now I know I didn’t stand a chance
From the first, you drew me and I drew you
Till we created the picture that was needed
To complete ourselves
After twenty five years
Your magnetism is as strong as the day I met you
Sometimes I forget, grow complacent
Then you’ll enter a room and it hits me
The energy palpable and sure
As we work this sojourn
I realize it is not our minds or hearts
Rather it is our souls who have done the choosing
We teach one another
You by your dharma
Me by my surrender
So that step by step
We stumble our way home