Water (A Blessing)

A Blessing for Water

Coming through today is my love for water – physical, symbolic, powerful element of the Universe.

A BLESSING FOR WATER: 

The flow – the rapids, the trickles, streams, drizzles, steams - water, I love you.

The openness, warmth, coolness –

splashing, seafoam, swimming, misty –

the shallow, deep, reaching the horizon – and further –

holding us afloat, drinking us in, water, I drink you.

Teach me, water, to be clear.

Teach me, water, to love my mystery.

Teach me, water, to ripple when I need to speak -

be still when I need to sleep.

Water, teach me.

Show me, water, how to float without a boat.

Show me, water, how to rise and fall in perfect rhythm.

Water, love me as I love you,

as we fall together over the cliffs in deep, swooping drops –

as we drift together down tributaries to mother ocean.

Love me, water, as I love you. I can feel it.

I know you do.

Thank you.

I love you.

Thank you.

…

Astra Spider

(Photo of Lake Michigan, Lee Street Beach, Evanston, Illinois. Courtesy of: me. 2012)