| Lovender Bath So much noise as the water fills my tub but i am ready sweet almond oil and lavender to nourish and scent peeling off my cares and worries they are a pile of clothes on the floor i step in and the slightly too hot water bites at my calves the heat beckons to immerse me i don't hesitate, i need this i kneel at first and lower my head to feel the rising steam upon my face stretching out my legs i fall in heat and scent seeping into every pore i am silky i feel the water love me and i think of God and my beloveds poetry arrives and i reply as it oozes from me no paper or pen to capture sacred it floats above me i breath in steam straight from the surface sighs are propelled from my lungs and more sighs and more and more they fill the room and my heart is stilled pushing my body down i stay there for a while for i like to hear my heart beat there louder than i can hear above it reminds me that indeed i am alive and that peace can be found shalome � 2006 |
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