Love Manifest

What is love
Is it that hand on my arm
Or open fingers
Holding silence
How does love manifest for me

Is it simply showing up
Or is it knowing how I feel
Love can speak
And it can not speak
Unconditional acceptance

The absence is profound
And makes the yearning deeper
Is living loving
Is it resting in the moment
With a peaceful heart

Knowing you'll be there
With a gentle guiding presence
Maybe there's no difference
Between that and this
Emptiness - sunyata

Is the sunshine through the trees love
While they are waving in the breeze
A leaf may fall
It's floats to the ground
Is that love

My heart soars
As I walk on crunchy snow
Is this love or
Just a distance from the past
Can love be living

SH October 2008