simple intimacy

and yet Somehow

this is all I need

to sit before You

and be known.

to breathe in and out

as Your heart

and mine

connect, unite, merge

a beam of light

holding us together

the simplicity of this is shocking

being with You

as natural as breathing

and my city problems fall away.

how can they compete

with sisters singing in a meadow?

or the wind moving my hair

and whispering Your love

and I know I will return

to issues and sadness

and maybe my life is to make those

less.

but what if my life were to be

something much simpler?

a return to the earth.

a return to myself.