Be.loved

Dear Beloved,

I hope you begin your day with kisses from the sun – she seems to shine a little happier when her light lands on you.

I hope your heart is moved with motion, so you may recognize it when I speak your name for the first time.

I hope you ground yourself in a plush field of blooms, so you may absorb the quiet beauty I will one day see in you.

May you nourish the temple that is your body, so that when I arrive, I can worship you without end.

I hope a pair of doves finds you and sings softly, so you come to know the gentleness of the affection waiting for you.

May the embers of your longing kindle a torch within your hands, one you may dance with until you understand the warmth of what we will become.

And may that flame hold you through the night, as you look toward the heavens, unaware that I am somewhere beneath the same sky, tracing the outline of a constellation that has always been ours.

Rest peacefully – for it is not you who needs beauty sleep, but beauty itself that waits for you, as you dream of the moment you are finally to wholly be loved.