One Love
I.
In the movement of the city night,
the foot of silence takes its pace
from the fragile orchid
in the hand of grace.
Now loving hence knowing hence being
all things as they arise and fall,
formless, shapeless spirit
Consciousness of all.
Manifested here as you and me,
krishna-radha, shiva-shakti,
lovers dancing behind
the veil of beauty.
II.
Hand in hand this concrete path we walk.
Each step’s symbolic power
Transforms our dream into
Petals of a flower
Falling like rain upon our desires
Soaking us with the scent of roses
Our wet bodies touching
Whatever the “I” discloses.
My eye, your eye, our eye is one eye.
Projecting out and taking in
this world of dualities
and returning within.
III.
Penetrating each other’s mind
we conceive the portrait
drawn by the Force’s hand.
this drama of past and future,
whose boundary is Now,
in which an entire life is lived
And so we walk the pathless path,
as breath falls upon breath,
on tranquil shades of night,
the brilliant shades of light,
as the black upon the white
Here is the center of the world,
the foot of the sacred cross,
where the two become one,
The beating of the sacred heart,
the center of the sun.
IV.
Let us take the forward step,
You and me – face to face,
gentle touch of our feet upon the ground,
where truth is realized without a sound.
And the Force called God or the Absolute,
is playing here as you and me,
laughing at the feet of Christ,
dancing on pineapples,
drinking the sweet nectar
that flows from our beating hearts.
Our legs and arms intertwined,
whether on concrete slabs or moistened grass,
the laughter and tears are one.
Feeling the beauty of detached love,
wholly you, wholly not.
Chanting Yes and No
to the call of our bodies,
suffering and then dissolved.
Our two minds, our two hearts,
two halves of a single face
that has descended from above,
Self into self, self into Self
one seeing,
one knowing,
one love.
– Michael Sudduth
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