for the sweetness of its lullaby
as it sings the world to rest.
Thank you for the night that dawns,
looming vast and limitless
as it opens up its heart:
in invitation,
in embrace.
There is an intimacy of knowing
beyond all that may be illumined
by the prosaic march of sun.
Thank you for the giddy, weightless freedom,
for the ability to see beyond
and to offer up ourselves
to a touch that burns
with an ache of intensity
softer,
even sweeter,
than the rain.
Thank you.