Our bodies are where our hearts belong Presence is a better word For love Than any other word We know. Presence is An answer to the plea - Stand by me. And friends offer one another. Of all our human riches Nothing could be greater Than the offering of ourselves To be there for each other. Presence makes us all Insiders Inside each others' lives.
Presence provides the elements The sun, the water, the soil.
How complicated We all are How ambiguous and contradictory Our whole story is. But mysteries that live And that love loves For no reason at all. Presence knows It will take a lifetime To say we knew Each other well. As presence allows Presence is like praying It is waiting on Responding to The silence of another's solitude Like our Creator Long ago. On this road From God knows where To God knows what This road that winds its weary way From the known to the great unknown Presence is our journeying on together Each one following The star that stood Above our crib On the day That we were born Each one of us Bearing a destiny That changes and touches Everyone in the world Around us By our Presence.