Breathe, my love — meditation

The lyric

Take a deep breath, my friend, the night is done

The garden of your lungs has met the sun

Every pore is drinking, every leaf is new

The air is full of honey — and it's all for you

Breathe, my love, breathe — the Beloved is near

The reed sings through the reed-bed, there is nothing left to fear

What you thought you were losing was never yours to keep

Breathe, my love, breathe — and wake from your sleep

The bark of the forest, rain on the stone

The world is handing back a sense you thought was gone

The taste of the morning, the salt of the sea

Everything you lost is coming back to you

There is a bellows, a temple, a bell

There is a house in my chest where I'm well

The smoke was a tenant, the light is the lease

I breathe, and the rooms of my body find peace

The reed was cut and it learned to sing

Its sorrow became the sweetest thing

You are that reed, and the breath is the song

Nothing was taken — you were singing all along

You left like a lover who stayed far too long

And I sang to the smoke till it turned into song

Now the air in my chest is a field after rain

And the future walks barefoot through me again

The future is writing me letters tonight

She says: keep the window, keep the door wide, keep the light

I answer with breathing — a thread and a song

The man I am becoming has waited so long

Breathe me the field, breathe me the sea

Breathe me the stranger I'm going to be

Every breath is a promise the body can keep

Every breath is a door that was never asleep

Free air, free air, on the roof of my mouth

The wind from the harbor, the wind from the south

I was a locked window, I was a closed door

Now I'm a field and I'm asking for more