sunday meditation

"In Love that Long" --Rumi

I am here, this moment, inside the beauty,
the gift God has given,
our love:

this gold and circular sign
means we are free of any duty:

out of eternity

I turn my face to you, and into
eternity:

we have been in
love that long.

photos by lucy top to bottom: Rodin's "The Thinker"; lit candles at Notre Dame; Monet's "Water Lilies", Musee d'Orsay; St. Chapelle; statue at Musee d'Orsay