The Flowering of Love

I know you hear my footsteps through the night and day,
and joyfully you turn your gaze toward the way.
Your joy blooms bright in autumn's boundless sky
with dawn's first blush on high.
Your joy falls wild in spring's enchanted wood
in showers of flower-flood.

The closer that I come to you
on paths I've learned by heart,
the more your ocean seems to dance
day after day apart.

From life to life, that lotus bloom unfolds its veil
and opens in your mind's clear lake,
while sun and stars in wonder crowd the shores and trail
in circles for curiosity's sake.

Your world, oh what a spray of light
fills every cupped palm of your prayer!
Your bashful heaven in my secret sky
unfolds love's petals, one by one, with care.