All At Once
This exquisite fullness
This preciously painful awareness
Of the sweetness that is All
So tenuous so strenuous to pretend otherwise
This piercing heartbreak of beauty
Leaves dancing, mouths lying
Humanity
Trying, trying, trying
All calls me to tears to laughter to furrowed brow
To the lure of wine, to the most sublime heartbreak
As the beloved, in its mysterious guises, pieces me back together
This human heart mends in the most crucial places
Ready to fall again, already falling
Already following the call
Of blossoming rocks
Of silent singing
Of echoless bewilderment
How can it all be at once?