Perfect storm

Feel lucky every day to have so much love

This capacity to love deeply, expansively, without dilution

All this love paraded openly, without hesitation, no self-conscious embarrassment

Expressed as it bubbles without permission wildly, madly, daily

Lucky to have been raised by those that know how to love

Among others in my tribe who're known for love 

Big hearts, warm arms, ocean hearts 

Luckier still to have found such love

Love beyond blood

Love that multiplies, never divides 

Every time I catch a glimmer, a warmth, a reflection of it
Deep friendships, sisters, those that share my lens,
Or simply see me and carry me even in my shirking lows

And then to have fallen in love with you who knows love
Can't imagine a life without such a love, that gives as truly for such a love

Never tires, never slows, never trades anything lesser for love

Lucky to have met you, to have noticed how you risk all for love
Luckier still to be seen by you wholly, deeply with my faults and sins

Lucky to be here in this space and time that affords love, doesn't regret nor resent love; 

Where the strains of survival, petty dangers, animal instinct can't debase love

Here where love matters, becomes the reason and sole star to follow 

Lucky to build our altar of love, the calm and deepest of happiness to have known this, 

This feeling, this gratitude, this wild elation

This pure dumb luck of love...
Here I reign!

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reena

4/24/17

traveling long haul from home to home evoked this deep feeling of gratitude for what i have...