Topic Tags: love

“The candles glow, tender, bright, something like your presence in my heart.”

“Lift our eyes to the mountains, / so, our hearts can take flight…”

“So I studied my family’s history her story / create joy in her holy days…”

“They’ll find simkha / coiled like a spring, / waiting to burst / into something beautiful…” 

Vast floods cannot quench love; // rivers cannot drown its life-weaving power.

Were you there, in wisps // of dreams that eluded me? // Maybe you’re off doing whatever // soul work awaited you. Or poof, // evaporated.

I dry her hair // gently, squeezing over her scalp // as she used to do for me

“The comfort of your presence The call of my being toward your light…”