a love letter

i had rehearsals tonight, with 2 different bands - first a bit playing the "tam" (a sort of a mini-tamborine but without the jingly bits all around it) with sol samba; then on to playing bongos with my nu-ceilidh/folk band, Diddley Dee. so, by the time i cycled home, my head was swirling with rhythms and transitions and endings and syncopations and a bountiful feeling of joy took over, and i needed to write it down. so here is what came out... rough and ready and straight from the hip. hope you like it!


dear rhythms

my blood
you fill my veins
my heart
you beat constantly

my nourishment
you fill me
empty me
and fill me again

the thread of my life
you tear me, shred me
and bind me back together

i sit in the music
and you consume me
i lay in the grass
and you bathe me in beauty

you writhe inside
pulsing hard and loud
yet you wrap me, cuddle me
so softly, sweetly

how deep will you take me?
you tap me and i shudder
slap me and i wonder
how deep can i go

you are all around me
yet i weave in and through you
and you me
a warm wet tapestry
tickling and
tapping along

my attraction is uncontrollable
i hear you and i follow
i feel you and i weep
for joy

your ecstasy swallows me
consumes me alive
then spits me out

and with a burning love
exploding my heart
my body, my soul

i am utterly whole