You've Entered My Heart

You are the silence

of crickets and stars.

You are the essence

which fills my thoughts.

I’m wide awake

beneath a California moon,

a conversation with my heart

telling me what it wants.

Many trails through redwood trees,

Douglas fir, tan oak, and ferns;

a mountain stream at my feet:

Somehow I knew this was about you.

You, like my first encounter

of the lighthouse and sea.

You, the highest epiphany

which grips me today.

I nod my head to the sky

as if a god is watching,

sit and breathe

until the moment fills my heart.

Now I wait for the day I’ll see you,

standing on yellow birch leaves in the sun.

Your hand extended, my eyes eager;

our path chosen and waiting.


From the book Kairos (print version only)