The Vision of You
Your heart beat, however faint and distant, quietly drones in my ear, steadily sounding the primordial call. Like a lighthouse on the shores of the Great Sea, its gentle rhythm points the way to you. I felt the warmth of your breath, but I did not see your lungs. I felt the wind of your movement, but I did not see your spiral dance. But for a thin curtain of flesh to blind the vision of the eye. A veil of tissue and bone to masquerade what you have made. This guardian of the threshold, this curtain of mercurial steel, lead in matter, but gold in spirit, paraded in the empty and unreal.
In the vision of you this tinny layer of skin was parted like a curtain, parted like an ocean, parted like a cloud where a beam of light descended to pierce the armor of ignorance. With you I walk boldly beyond the fall, beyond the wall of death, and the dream of sorrow, obedient to the reality you command. I am sodden in the intimacy of our communion, saturated in your Love as your passion overturns me. In you my vision is transported beyond the images of my eye and I see you looking beyond the mask of my delusions. I am naked to your penetrating gaze and fear not your judgment, for you are my Holy Father and I your Holy Son.
Your breath fills my lungs, as the life that lives in me, ever filling ever full ever complete. I reach for you, as you even now embrace me in unbounded Love, unashamed of the darkness that scatters behind me. I found you in my hunger, I found you in my satiety, I found you where I saw you not, and receive again what was never lost. My master, my beloved teacher, my eternal companion, my will is yours, my life belongs to only you. The ecstasy I cherish is your delight, for you are Lord and I am your grateful servant in the palace of this immortal life. What more can I give to you, but the complete realization of what is forever yours, and to abide with you in the beauty of your endless splendor.
~Asa
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