Your presence is all I need,
not more, not less, not greater
not smaller, just this being here now
possessed as you fill me with this
ether that I have always desired,
and my vision is opened and I
see beyond this petty world that
I call me, beyond this ordinariness
of spirit, toward this hallucination
that this world might be a better
place with you, that we might build together
a new will to return to the Garden,
having eaten of the tree, and find
there not perfection but the presence
of each other in the new making,
presence in tilling the ground as we
are building, we are seeing, we are hoping.

 

18/4/2026