Heart Dreams

I am walking out under a late afternoon sky when a blood-red, heart-shaped balloon catches my eye as it rises from somewhere nearby. It appears to flutter like a drowsy bird. I look up and see more~ heart-shaped balloons in every shade from deep maroon and ruby to palest rose, even clear. It's not a crowded sky, but everywhere as far as I can see to the horizon, they're swaying gently in the early evening breeze. They move with seeming intention on an invisible tide, a community of lovers. A bell rings deep in my heart and I'm suffused with a slow easy joy.

This is a snippet from the dream I had right before I woke up this morning. That slow and easy joy? Still wearing it in my cells like the sweetest hug....

For Love

Yes lover, for you. 

Yet more still- for Love

Unfettered, 

On a scale larger

Than youth's dreams could ever hold. 

They shatter-

I bleed terror and delight, 

And expand beyond....

Unbound

From that small, lonely dock

I once pinned my heart on. 

Swing, glide, rock n roll wild, 

At sea on possibility. 

Singing, sweet harmony-

And Love's echoes sing back from everywhere, 

But most from the depths within.

Not IN it; I AM it. 

I cannot be unmoored, 

For this Love is my dock 

And my ocean. 

This Love is my boat

And my sail. 

Love- the very soul alight within me! 

I, this shard of god

That fell to earth. 

The dream of exile,

I slowly rub from my mind's sleepy eye, 

And awaken to the truth of ubiquitous power, 

No prodigal to anything but my self, 

I find I am abundantly home. 

Say not my love or yours, 

But only Love, miraculous and terrible. 

This is my home. 

This is my self. 

Our selves-

Love. 

We cannot lose what we are. 

Or win it. 

Only see true.

I weary of battles with mirror ghosts, 

I Lay down arms, 

Release-

Into the aweful beauty that is the only guarantee....

For now, love. For you. 

But yet more, 

And always, 

For Love. 

copyright 2010 Calleaghn Kinnamon

(I don't know who to credit for the photo. If you do, please tell me so I can add it!)