TIMELESS LOVE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

In the twelfth century on the Saharan caravan, I whispered

Horatio, I shall always love you.

And in the fifteenth century, on the Rialto bridge, I pressed my body into yours and whispered

Regina, I will adore you throughout eternity.

This love affair has been going on,
often ever so secretly,
for thousands of years.
And, here we are, finding ourselves again
as we progress from 2009 into 2010

and on this new day,
I proclaim, to all of you

We are of One family,
One life form,
vibrating and radiating through billions of faceted faces.
We are bound by love,
We are bound and destined to love
each other.
All other behavior is but drama,
Our dharma for having momentarily lost our way,
the ignorance stemming from misplacing
our authentic rites of passage.

Our human rites of passage have been recovered and resurrected,
waiting now for others to practice and come on board.
This is the time to be courageous through the heart.
Much must be released and undone,
all these toxic habits and beliefs to which we have clung,
for so very long.

Thus the Great Cleansing begins in earnest, again
And I proclaim yet again:

I love you my brother and my sister,
my father and my mother,
and my lover,
Do not forget this!

We are beginning our pilgrimage.
we will greet each other
And we will exchange the secret handshake
Or speak the sacred phrase
Or exchange the kiss of awakening
Or shed the bittersweet tears of release
And we will remember why we chose to again
Incarnate and share our sublime love.