Give and Take

Give and Take

Taking it all into myself

Thus has it always been so

Taking it all and twisting and tweaking

Making it all into a blessing

I see visions, I hear angels

Let me take you into myself

Let me bless you

Let me believe in you

Let me see through your eyes,

Walk on your legs,

Imagine with your biography.

I can but touch you.  So poignantly.

What I do never matters.

What I say has no gravitas.

What I pray for

gets lost in the queue of prayers.

I am breathing

crisp air of autumn's evening

I am walking

mist obscures my view.

Lost in a vision, in a Van Gogh painting,

hysterical laughter, gut wrenching tears,

a vision of weeping, knees bent and falling

permission I grant me.

I am loving with open heart

a frightened child who once declared

I can take it.