your beloved presence
fills my heart
as we hug again
familiar comfort
in our shared nest

your journey of shifting sand
meets my trail of unyielding roots
and unconditional acceptance
sweeps us into its arms
a dizzying tangle like
eagles plunging earthward
rapt in evolutionary bliss

yet now still miraculously
we are together above and below
swooping through the lucid light
allowing what will grow
to develop in the one universal
natural warm rhythm

the landscape streams by
with highly detailed clarity
every possibility rapidly unfolds

©John Greenleaf-Maple – text and art 20180422