Reunited - Poem

Reunited

And I sat next to you

In the east side

Of a deep sweat lodge

At the sacred juncture
Where masculine and feminine meet

Reaching for your hand in the velvet darkness

I found the paw

Of a lioness

And in the forest I floated

Dust in streaming sunbeam

Alighting on you

A regal cedar

I hugged you

And bark became flesh

Became woman

Your essence human embodied

And in the ocean we met

Two drops became one

Laughing through a fish’s gills

Warming submerged volcanic glow

Broken apart by breaking wave

And then

Each time
Reunited again

Finally…

--Eric for Heather

October 2014