Two people stand heart to heart.
Spirit to spirit.
Alive with truth to give.
Unafraid to touch what is vulnerable within them
and offer it in trust.
That is how they share their inner sanctum:
that smallest place at the core of each;
that still-point where all things of meaning to them converge—
where incoming wave pushes
as outgoing wave beneath it pulls
until both
in the find of common ground,
superimposed
for an instant
stop.
There united they stand,
and brave,
like the smallest flickering flame
which,
tiny even so,
lifts its gaze
to meet the stars
light to light.
Then all that is sacred bursts forth again
like Life in the time of Spring,
because there
inside the two
is the one
The God
stirring.
July 1986