Open S P A C E

Can someone please explain

Why the distance feels insane

The desire for all this s  p  a  c  e

With such longing to embrace

How the unseen chills my skin

While before my eyes, a heavy within

A density of me as this log on beach

Yet my lightness felt just beyond reach

Can someone share the paradox of it

Why this solitude calms my spirit

The expansiveness of natural s  p  a  c  e

Fills my weary human heart with grace?

While the muck of living in community

At times, undermines my sense of Unity?

How far away must I travel to be

To meet my desire for intimacy?

As close as my vital breath

Brings vastness as the earth

As far as I may touch with finger

Brings presence, Wherever I may linger

Open places of my Smallness bring relief

Somehow that I alone don’t hold my grief

Standing in spaciousness, a levity

With the dispersion of my intensity

Can someone please tell me

Why the distance takes me closer to thee

Perhaps the vastness of you and me

Can only be held in the S  P  A  C  E

of the Mystery

Blessed be open S  P  A  C  E