Poem 74: Beautiful Measure

and there never was a measure

to say my distance from the world

so far was I from believing

from completeness, from everything

but now I have me a beautiful measure

and my distance is no more than

the light before your smile

as the sun before the day

or the song of a bird before its sound

and the breath of the sea before its reach

this near am I now.

and yet my distance is deep

and my distance is broad

and in its measurement

I will touch your sky

and hold you close enough

to encircle the world.