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melting

first there’s feeling what is there

can’t be rushed but sure can be ignored

been doing that most of my life

who would have thought that trying doesn’t help and stopping does

so every once in a while I’m quiet sitting or moving with what hurts feels wrong feels right feels good

not to understand just recognize

God in you God in me has never been frozen

shhhh

it doesn’t speak our language

there is nothing to hear nothing to speak nothing to grab on to nothing to perceive

it is

in that which can’t be gotten wordless presence beyond our kind

from the spring of our existence the perfectly melting stream of the Other rushing over bright stones of what we think we are bubbling towards what is

and we are everywhere at once

from 10 Love Poems — Bill Eberle

Winter 2006     © 2012, Bill Eberle