a visit from tara

you came to me in dream last night
evocative of promised bliss
treasured perfection of love
impossibly separate & distinct yet within

having searched for you everywhere
discovering you at last so close, so dear
effortlessly erasing the boundaries
yet so spontaneously unique

this ancient history of attachment
mere child's play now
those lessons, which through your heart
have become so richly blessed

the smile upon your lips washing
heart & mind & soul
awakening to your rich presence
your quickening virtue

your gracious forbearance of imperfection
as faltering and stumbling
these patterns of limitation
exhaust themselves

you have always been here for me
in many guises, many forms

so generously adapting yourself
to my needs, my fears

as transcendent love awakens
transforming mortal clay
this incandescent crucible
your being's energetic caress