And I will give thanks for this day

For this time

For this moment

When I saw you

When I found you again

Facing me, looking into me

Remembering who I am

Remembering who you are.

You…..

Blessed child of the desert.,

Elegant Princess of Yemeni,

Daughter of sorrow and loss,

Friend to broken spirits,

Queen of long gone distant lands.

See how I have been impudent

Daring to stare deep into your heart

Daring to return in shame and disgrace

Daring to believe that love could endure

Our sorrow and loss

Our desperation and pain

These broken hearts

That desert storm

The lonely mountain pass

This time you were gone.

Because I see:

You are beautiful,

You are marvellous

You are a desert oasis

A candle in our desperate night

A lighthouse on these storm tides

Because Truth is in you

Because God has made you

Because you have known love

And understand what love means.

And who can say what will become of us,

Or of love….

See how friendship twists and turns,

Two boats moving on a wide river,

Two strangers on the road.

One day I walked out not knowing you would be there.

Not expecting your smile, not looking for your touch

And see how the current brought us close.

Drifting side by side I almost feel your heart beating.

But will storms pull these boats apart,

Or vicious waves send us far away again?

As we always were before I met you on the road,

On the river at the turn of a tide.

Forgive me then if I find you beautiful,

Hear the gentle tones of your voice like a promising song.

Like the sweet call of birds on a woodland way.

Like hope in the night.

Forgive me then that I would wait this while longer to be by your side,

Here hoping again for your touch

Or to see you approaching on the morning tides,

On these lonely roads that you make brighter

On these ways you illuminate through your beauty and song.