Simply Here With you (Listen Online) Speaking of miracles Beyond this earthen air I breathe And this aging early winter morning sun Are these sacred moments When time feels still And I am simply here with you Beyond the hanging silence Ending all of your sentences and any words spoken I see how your voice sheds so much light and beyond the taste of the careening ocean wind whispering waves through bending trees and me seeing you looking far out into the vast green blue Pacific horizon Right down to my bones I know no more is needed than This pure wide open space in which I am simply here with you Beyond all the talk and promise of December Or any resolutions in the New Year And even the deep secrets sensed in the dark illumination Of a full winter moon Is the holy spark and electricity Of your hand in mine and I think "my God, time has frozen over" When I am simply here with you I suppose what I am trying to say Beneath all the metaphor and the ancient myth Is that there is no real need for me To even compare all of this to a miracle Because you and I and All of this Already are the heroic miracle and I am fully alive and I am simply here with you John Rettger Dec 25, 2013