Before All Else

To share
The sunshine of the heart
Is to find
The sun upon your face
And bliss
In basking
In its beauty.

For around each corner
Is a smiling face
Reflecting joy,
Both playful and loving,
And each new corner
Yields still more of the same
Infinite quality.

Can you imagine
A world
In which the heart
Is worn naked
And transparent
In the body,

And everywhere
There are flowers
Glowing
In adoration of the sun?

Well, this IS the world
In which the heart
Finds its place in plenty
And where the mind
Has settled down.

This IS the world
Into which we are born
Through the tool of the body,
Knowing the grit and dank
Of the soil
And yet also
The ineffable reality
From whence we all come.

How could we not share
This truth
Made of light and love,
Beyond the bounds of space
And time
And all we deem heavy?

How could we not share
This warm and tender truth
Of happiness
God-given to us all
As life
Found effortless

Just like the sun
And the flowers -
And really
All forms under
The light loved down.

How could we not share
The sharing
That brought us to ourselves
And to the boundless

And to the truth
That we are love
First

Love first
Before all else.