There is an Elemental Love by Stephen Levine

There is an elemental love in the universe

by which name we know each other

and encourage ourselves to live.

There is a silver river which connects everything

from which some part of us never leaves.

There is a mercy making its way

up through the ocean of the earth

to the shores of our feet

There is a diamond- glint, a seed of longing

in ourselves that recognizes the potential 

absence of gravity in another.

There is a part of us that 

says it is never too late to be reborn

on the inbreath each morning.

Stephen Levine, Breaking the Drought

There is a grace approaching

that we shun as much as death,

it is the completion of our birth.

It does not come in time,

but in timelessness

when the mind sinks into the heart

and we remember.

It is an insistent grace that draws us

to the edge and beckons us surrender

safe territory and enter our enormity.

We know we must pass

beyond knowing

and fear the shedding.

But we are pulled upward

none-the-less

through forgotten ghosts

and unexpected angels,

luminous.

And there is nothing left to say

but we are That.

And that is what we sing about.

Stephen Levine, Breaking the Drought