ENGAGED LOVE

Once in time, two were separate.

The ache was great,

for each had sought the desert

to prepare and purify their hearts

for the rebirth of a far broader and deeper love.

This love, they baked in the furnace,

held in incubation,

in the crucible,

the clay oven of heartfeltness.

In this formlessness, the holy spirit enters,

gives nourishment,

inscribes instruction to blossom and encompass all,

to weave, thread and penetrate

and impart a viral, radical radiating signal

that love has arrived,

come home to nest.

On this day sixteen

that which is masculine collapses its separation

with the feminine

and a bolder spirit takes form

and is born.

This new spirit is fueled through divine heart,

its languaging is a musing and communion

with the metaverse.

It can be seen visibly, as two children holding hands,

lighting up the world with their heartfelt play.

On this day, we two children of the metaverse,

unite and profess,

yea we unabashedly confess,

Aye, we invoke and proclaim

our radiant partnership,

our collusion,

our collodial supersaturated suspension,

our exponential covalent bonding.

Our love has found and established its nest,

where love will roost, flower, flourish,

freely flowing and nourishing

all we encounter on our inclusive journeying.

The circle, the ring-bearing,

Finding the magic keys,

Invoking and experiencing collective freedoms

Speaking the sacred blessings,

spreading belongings,

connecting,

tripping all safeties

for opening to the heart divine.

I profess my love and desire to cherish thee,

I assertively meet you beyond all half-ways,

with a wholeness arising from the heart.

We bring the transformed energy of storm,

the high-tides of past torment,

the anguish of prior partners who pulled away.

All these energies we forge and redirect,

To gently place into the service of love,

to bathe the many shores,

to hold the space for love to rest and nest

and transform us into we,

as we conger and manifest

the many gifts held in embrace,

nurtured in accepting all the gifts,

scrapes and scorn
contained

and exchanged

in this wildly abundant Oneness.

On this day, February third, two thousand and ten, Howard McQueen and Emory Cortese do hereby proclaim their engagement, after sixteen days of giving, receiving
and sharing love aboard the sailing boat Manta, owned
by the most generous of benefactors, gifting us his
air conditioned love nest and our honeymoon, we honor
the name and living spirit of Sir Ron Lively and the love-felt
blessings of his lady, Katy.
























All this we honor and overflow aboard the first of many
Heart Centered Oasis, this floating ship holding the Oneness,
tethered to Dock A, Independent Boatyards, Red Hook,
St. Thomas, USVI.