My eternal beloved

My Eternal Beloved

I have been yours since my first cosmic breath

was exhaled inside the primordial waters of your dark womb.

You my love have caressed my many faces with your southerly wind fingertips.

Your sacred waters have bathed my many forms across oceans and timeless rivers.

You beloved have held memories of my blood; an eternal hourglass inside rock and stone.  

The blood that poured from my womb as I birthed my thousand children.

The blood of those who died by my hand

and there were many.

The blood that trickled from the corners of my mouth and seeped through my skin 

as I passed away in your earthly embrace again and again.

You my love are the millions of flowers that have reached my gaze

You are the endless chorus of birds that have serenaded the fabric of my hearing

Each note the call of your devotion

You my love are the resplendent hues that I forget until I remember

You are the hundred shades of green

You are lime, jade, olive and emerald.  

Beloved your arms have embraced me with moss and twigs

your ancient roots have carried my secrets into underground cathedrals

I have planted my dreams inside your soil

I have seeded my longings into your terracotta womb

over and over

and each time I return to you I forget the eternal love we have already shared

I forget our history together 

Our beginnings of time

I forget that every happening 

And all unfoldment is engraved upon your landscape

I forget that you are a record for my many hearts

For the multitude of skins and bodies that have sheathed me.

You are a keeper of the countless 

My endless births and deaths 

Failings and transformations

for the billions of memories that I no longer recall

You hold them all for me inside rock, bark and clay.  

Underneath roots and waves

Between petals 

Ours is an ancient love.  

Eternal beloved.