If even there were a chance
To tell a beautiful soul
While they were shattered with fear
That their life has meaning

Or when another cannot see the road ahead
That we would outline a path
So that they could again
Walk in sunlit groves

Or maybe when we hear that terrible sound
Of a heart breaking in another
We would find the strength in our arms
To hold them to our own hearts

Would we not give of our warm blood
When a loved one
Is filled with ancient chill
They cannot escape on their own?

It is that I stand and look upon an unbroken lineage
Found right here in the veins of my own body
Proof positive of origins
Beyond this place

Yet in the care of another
Who also carries such proof
I find there in them great sadness
As their line is erased by the folly of mankind

What would I not give
To claim right and privilege
To they who walk without a past
That they may seal their sorrow with gladness?

Verily my lips have soared into the spaces between worlds
To the distance of every sun and planet and moon
To the gases surrounding all things
And the weighted matters unseen

Verily my heart has not ceased to wish
That my eyes would witness the justice
Given to a life on this earth
Who has known injustice beyond measure

Verily have I surrendered all things
And laid them all upon the alter
Freely giving with faithful resolve
That another may receive that which is already theirs

Because it is
That I serve a God
Of Miracles
And perfected love

And into this truth I can find absolute proof
For given to this beautiful soul, my lover
Is not the greatest of all men who walked the earth
But instead they received the blood of the dead

And in this hardened chasm of worthlessness
Grew a single flower of desire for good
Because of the beauty within another
Who stood before me always, even in my dreams

And it is by justice that one such as I
Would be given the experienced authority
To make clean and welcomed
All of those items thrown away in another

Only then to discover that here, placed in my hands
Was the greatest soul of all souls
Buried deep within an isolated spirit
So loved by God to be kept secret

Revealed to me in time, she was
That all horridness within my own bones
Would rise to the surface and expel itself from me
In fear of the love shared with this other

There it was that I again found a small boy
Who knew not of anything wicked or vile upon the earth
Who being innocent could reach out and grab the hand
Of my eternal companion

What would I not give
To comfort the abuse of the world
Raged upon another
Undeserving?

Oh that I could offer them my mind
That they with eyes of my life
Could see the whole matter of love
Witnessed by me of their works!

Never again would they sorrow
Or doubt or crumble or fall
Or seek or fear or need
Because of their new perspective

That I could offer them my heart also
That they may feel the alteration within me
Of everything stone turned to life
Because of their great beauty

Never again would they feel forgotten
Or unloved or unwanted or undesired
Or untrusted or unworthy
Because of my truth felt in them

I who was dead to the truth
Having walked in every dark forest
Found grace given, that only by the proof of grace
May freely walk in any realm fearlessly

So that in carrying grace in the valley of death
May also find our beloved companions
Sent there before by ancient lies and horrors
Bringing to them the opened gate of a greater kingdom

It is that this is only right
For it was long ago that another did speak for me
Even unto their very life
So that the heavens would record my name

And in my blood line
This is also the way of us all
That we proclaim our love and acceptance and protection
For another soul unspoken for by men

In the unknown and unseen war
None shall be left behind
For there is far greater than chance
That our torch blazes with love

Their life has meaning
Even in darkness.

Ryan o0o