Love’s Momentum

I wrote this prose in June 2019 after recollecting a peak experience of awakening I had one day 20 years ago. It was 1999, and I was in a car with a girlfriend and two of her young daughters, aged 4 and 7. The two girls were singing along to the tune on the radio: "I want it that way" by the Backstreet Boys. For that moment, in the sweet harmony of sisters, the pure innocence of pure love filled the space. I was immersed in the full beauty of hearts free to express themselves. Even today, upon reflection, I can remember how love demolishes the insanity of this world of duality. 

 

 

 

Bursts of broken glass blow apart structures once sturdy

Cleansing from within the diseased, the downtrodden, the dirty

The peeling off of the dry and dead – reality’s skin

Crushing the delusions of every place we’ve been

Laughable, all stress – in an instant – melts to the ground

An open sky – space brothers smile at what we’ve found

Celebration rumbles up from underground roots

The return of the Lord of Lords, the truth of truths

No more need for forgiveness, retribution, reparation

Nor the desperate propaganda to keep us all in separation

No longer preoccupied with agony’s desire for attention

Fuck that – here it comes – yes it’s love’s momentum

It started from the first explosion of soul – a divine spark

Tumbling earthbound for the joyful excursion into the dark

Duality dripped upon us until we fell for it hook, line and sinker

Drowning our sorrows in poison – a lonely, early morning drinker

Buried in soot, buried in denial, barely a breath to exhale

Covered up – veil upon veil upon veil … upon veil

Even prayers leave us in despair, believing no one will ever be there

When all that is wanted is the face of someone, anyone, who cares

So we search – as we plunder, blunder, slumber along

Every step, deeper into the test, learning right from wrong

One hand clapping, our primordial face – all of life’s conundrums

Will it come - where is the eternal, the source … love’s momentum?

It is here, it is here, do not despair

Every time we proclaim that life is not fair

Seeds will bloom, given room, in full magic and splendor

Soothing all sores, healing all wounds … all so tender

Miracles arising everywhere – glimmering underneath dreams that are buried

The yin and the yang, the above and the below – forever married

Seen in anonymous donation, God’s invisible helping hand

Seen in two young sisters, in sweet harmony, singing glories of the latest boy band

Seen in the laughter of the child who recalls not history’s hell

Seen in in sublime response to prayer from our own wishing well

Seen in the dramas and karmas playing out in divine detail

Seen in the transcendent lesson gifted us every time we fail

Seen in the light of our life that often eludes our worldly attention

It is here, it is here, it is here … look for it … love’s momentum