Good Afternoon

Rest your eyes, my love,
feel the sun on your face,
savor the air,
time slowing its pace.
Still glowing palms,
sweet moments of peace,
place your thumbs on your eyes,
breathe in slow, then release.
Nothing is missing,
Nothing to prove,
just this moment arriving
to carry you.

Rest your eyes, my love,
you have all that you need,
know that arms hold you steady
where you are meant to be.

Laugh hard as a bell,
feel the burn in your lungs.
Empty every last drop,
filled again, then re-wrung.
Be in your body,
to the ache, don’t attune.
Commune without language,
don’t come home too soon.

Rest your eyes, my love,
You have all that you need,
know that arms hold you steady
where you are meant to be.

Wisdom in restraint
and wisdom in release.
Sometimes lost in our heads
when we’re too far beneath.
I wouldn’t push you away,
only laying you down
in a gentler keeping
than the one I have now.
There’s so much brokenness, darling,
it waits under the skin,
I can’t pretend it’s not there.
I watch the needle spin.

Rest your eyes, my love,
I’ll see to you in time.
we’ll bathe under stars
when they realign.

Rest your eyes, my love,
You have all that you need,
know that arms hold you steady
where you are meant to be.