The Essence of Surrender:

If you really stop to think of it...We All need love

For what is there in life that surmounts the privilege

When the giving of ourselves in such selfless fashion

Gives us possession beyond the greatest of all riches

To be able to touch one another and gather the hope of each

As if it at once became our own

When one gives without the notion of getting,

And receives without the notion of being taken over

Then one tastes the seed of love at once to plant this seed and watch it grow

Then one is possessed by the seed and not the notion

To receive love's greatest blessing knowing that in real love there is surrender

Yet so much to gain

One is not born to be lonely nor generally wishes to be so

Even the Island welcomes the Trees

And the waves lamping at it's fringes

Perhaps we even gather possessions for the longing,

Not to rest ourselves in an empty room

What do you feel when my hand touches your face?

And when your lips bridge the gap to mine?

Do you not consider a need?

And is there not a surrender if even on the part of both?

As the night comes down on my shoulders

And I feel the nearness of you

I begin to encounter the need

For you have become the fragments of a soul,

... So incomplete in your absence