Loving loving

love pours out, breaks through my skin
I have porous places seeping/leaking
into your life
because you called me here
and, like rain finds
cracked ground to water
and fill with hope,
I am running to you/
filling spaces you've
left for me/carved
my name, said, "this crevice will do"

I am in love in all the right
ways and reasons/
shaking my fear free from
yesterday's chains,
refusing to hold you accountable
for someone else's inflicted pain

I am no longer running
from the possibility
that love is healing
even in the face of missteps/
mistakes and failed opportunities
to grow, to stretch
to be in tune with the
rushing waters
of my own heart

I am wide-open flayed
bleeding love back
to you

© Valerie Bridgeman
August 4, 2011