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Caught By Your Love
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Arlene Gay Levine


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Maybe it's the patience you bring to all things
whether sautéing a filet or solving a problem
Perhaps it's the way you listen when I can't hear myself
so you can guide me to shore
Possibly it's your beautiful eyes, reflecting pools
where I can see myself as cherished,
especially when I have forgotten to like who I am
It could be how the touch of your hand comforts me
back to sleep when I wake at three in the morning
fearful about some foolish thing that won't
be a pebble ten years down the riverbed from now
Conceivably it's the surging stream of your devotion
surrounding me in my most solitary moments
or the way you've taught me by your generosity
how I could afford to nurture myself
and you without skimping
It might be all these reasons and ones
I don't yet understand even after all these years
that have hooked my heart and made me
so grateful to be caught
by your love

 

From Wedding Blessings (Random House/Broadway Books, 2003).
Used here with author's permission.

 

 

 


Arlene Gay Levine is an award-winning poet, author, and educator who lives with her husband in New York City. The author of 39 Ways to Open Your Heart: An Illuminated Meditation (Conari Press) and Movie Life (Finishing Line Press), her poetry and prose have found a home in The New York Times, numerous anthologies and journals, an Off-Broadway show, a CD, and radio programs. Arlene has served as a judge for the Illinois State and Virginia State Poetry Society Contests, and is the creator/facilitator of Logos Therapy™, a transformational writing process. Learn more about her at http://www.arlenegaylevine.com.

    


Post New Comment:
carel:
Heartfelt and beautiful message for today!
Posted 02/14/2017 10:29 AM
Lori Levy:
Beautiful tribute.
Posted 02/14/2017 10:00 AM
hujsaked@aol.com:
"You can live without religion and meditation but you cannot survive without affection." - Dalai Lama.
Posted 02/14/2017 09:46 AM
CamilleBalla:
Wonderful blessing of true love ~ acknowledging loving presence to one another. What greater gift? Excellent poem!
Posted 02/14/2017 08:12 AM


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