When you loved me before us
I was given perfect love

When you loved me before I was
I was drawn out of your well

When you loved me before you were
I was given to drink

When you loved me before, during, and after your life
I was born out of the night

I only loved you after you
Position non existent

I loved you before your life
just as under God we grew as the tide

Presently
below the sea is where our palace lies
Our shores shared
and also connected
as the distant shore is also our individual lives in type
But then we are the water
ascending and descending
to and fro between the lands
in each ocean's movement to rise

I imagine things of Paradise
that are not even lawful to speak
not even the eagles who soar in storms to incredible heights
are permitted to express
the dense vibrancy of our perfect love and person
except through the lightning's frame before the thunder's encompassing fulfillment and revelation of what is unknown by any other
who does not share the same name that is inside

My heart longs to say: "your mine"

waiting for heaven
holds no love
if we do not presently strive

When your heart
this Saturday morning
sang to mine

the bells of transcendence
brought the harvest
of a spring rain
and the drops upon the leaves
caught by the morning's translucent sky
all witnessed the blooming
of an implanted self sufficient (James) infinite intimate precious light

No two tigers have the same lines

our eyes are witnesses of our single person and undefiled light

the flying serpent which chases the eagle
may not capture the Sun
not expertly dive

Foxes tails are white
and yet these abide:
the ewe within the camp and gate
and the lion outside

You look right through me
even through my love to cry

My knees are tried
as my spine

My ears as my breath
my heart receives and my blood is as stayed as fire
my water and substance
even my definite roots and vine-
these stretch out in the day
and under the moon and stars they wait
in the awe of your perfect love and beauty
skipping and soaring in adrenaline
to be the abode that brings forth your wine

I didn't want to just say
that you are different than all others
and they you

I didn't want to just no longer
possess the past
or carve a new future
different than everything else
as if only opposites thrive

I didn't want to just say
that I didn't believe in what was in the enemy's hands

I didn't want to just settle
or put on an attitude that was common
as if truth existed in numbers, a horse, or the legs of man

I didn't command the stone to bread
or jump off the top of the temple
or believe Satan
and I haven't even boasted from the proverbial mast

But I have risen as the LORD's strong man
even as a mighty man
shouting
just as I have also held my peace
and restrained myself
and even in labor did I pant and gasp

As a restrainer
I have held punishment and wrath back
just as the Spirit of Repentance
choosing rather to die
and stand in the gap

I want to hear your response
to my proposal
as I now openly ask
I exult in my lowness
just as James said
and the LORD lifts me up
in my humility
and be-attitudes
even to set me up on high
in a seat which is encompassed in the First and the Last

Though I feel like no on listened
as I have also been judged in my weakness
but then
by God
lifted up and purified as Christ was His shaft

I entreat your hand in marriage
knowing also the gift and calling of Abraham-
this the fulfillment of David fleeing
for God takes the individual and the two
and brings them out to rich fulfillment
as upon Abraham and Sarah's path
leaving the Chaldeans of Ur, his father, concubines, and Lot
they came unto His Promise
which is as true as His Person, word, and oath
unable to ever rot
and also as whole as a golden sash

God's promise through me
is as the expanse of His firmament
free, without guile
and in the testimony of Christ
which is fully justified in love
even as salvation is wholly sought

Apart from each other
we can do nothing for us
and even though I can stand in the gap
apart from you
I am not happy
though that may sound rash
It is your smile
which is what I cry for
and it is your love which gives me to romantically laugh

I love you
and there is nothing that I have apart from you

whether you come to me in April, June, or the Day He comes as a thief in the night
I know that it is only you who are the encompassing crown
which is my treasure and oneness
and my righteous, holy, and pure delight

Your secret is mine
and under God
we are always all things
in the inheritance which is ours and His
ready to save, fulfill, and give everlasting pleasure and life
just as it is our heart's desires
which shall alight
for it is blessing and goodness that surrounds us
because two witnesses declare the oneness
and each other
being both husband and wife
king and queen
lovers
chaste and virginic
named a perfect person and persons
going beyond the gift of exchanging the power of communion found in flowing together as water, wind, and enraptured flights
into the substance of depths
which is found in the blood, bone, flesh, and surpassing greatness of unity
that meets in every aspect of colors including white

we are always together
forever
and even hidden alone
as our beings eternally encompass each other
from everlasting to everlasting
truly satisfied
and containing ever-flowing peace
as feathers and a kite
whether or not we walk or fly
and whether or not the elements are contrite, shining, have pangs, or fight