Life Dancing

move
like salsa beats
caught up in
ba ba ba baba
feet, hips, smile
as one
move
like the world moves
cuz you move with it
caught up in
it's rise and fall
slide, glide, slip
between earth and stars
caught up in eternity
move
like lips caught up
in a kiss, in a smile, in a prayer
touched by beauty,
this is life dancing.

Traces of God

On days like this
I wake to feel God
between the rhythms of my aching heart
in the heaviness of my foot steps
sliding down the curves of my face.
On days like this
my inner eye is
washed clean
and another star is born
in the expanse of the universe within me.
On days like this
I feel all the prayers I know
dancing on my heart
moving within the breaths
that rush in and out of my lungs.
On days like this
when I awake from sadness
I know the courage I must have
for just as God is in the lightness of happiness
so is He in the darkness of sadness
and both shall pass
leaving traces of Him.

Girl-Woman

A vast
limitless ocean
touching the shore
of his heart
turned bottomless well
devoid of water
longing
to be filled.

A complete woman
world traveled
heart wise
embracer of solitude
turned freightened child
aching
in his absence
fearing he will vanish.

The clingy girl-woman
must
lay to rest
timeworn memories
of abandonment
to embrace recollections
of bonds unbroken.

Stepping from child to woman,
forsaking the well
to reclaim the ocean,
she comes to him
not with fear
but with integrity.