Our Glass
We are like an hourglass
sharing one-grain, one emotion,
one taste of ourselves at a time
As you fill me up with new,
Exciting, enticing experience
you release yourself to me
You free yourself to take in
more of the world,
more of life, more of love
less of what entangles you
I hunger for all that you have for me
give to me, bring to me
the way you enlighten me
with the wisdom that is your way
All that you absorb from the world
I hope, I know, I trust
will be a part of my adventure
my experience, my happiness
So now with gentle emotion
we roll us over in shifting sands
to other moments we grow together.
As I release all the stress of the hour,
all the love I have harbored for you
all the emotion that flavors us
I pour out
just before my cup runs over
Just before the pleasure becomes too much
just when I have the most to give
It clears my head like a spring rain
it cools the fevered pace of my life
It culls the weed from the seed
before the planting
And with all this we grow again
because we keep our baskets full
there is so much more to harvest
there always has been
there always will be
I in you, and you in me
Because we are like an hour glass
sharing sand together...
counting heart beats
capturing each moment
for eternity.
Copyright © William Clause | Year Posted 2010
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