When Sleep Came

 

Your eyelashes moved the

air between us.

The lids which carried them

would swing open and shut…

open and shut.

And there, soft blue would

circle the light within you.

That little light of yours

that did shine…

did shine on us.

When we were with you

lower loves were called up

to the higher one.

Agape’ would surface…

it would surface in us.

Your family would see

your smiles spread across.

Sometimes you would

lend them to the rest of us…

to rest on us.

A language from above

you would speak.

A coo of your own tongue

would rise above our questions…

rise above our questions.

Without a first step,

without a framed embrace,

without a formed word,

you spoke into our lives….

spoke into our lives.

And we slowed down

down to our being

where the still small voice is

that voice you heard

that voice we hear.

And when sleep came,

it came so sweetly and

air slipped in and out and

God held our breath…

God held our breath.

For the Webb family

in honor of Aiden Josiah Webb

April 1^st 2011