MOST ACUTELY HUMAN

I was timid and alone, unaware of my intensity, and then I fell,
You beckoned gently; I bowed in response
and then I dove
I dove hard and I dove fast
Daring you not to catch me
But you did
 
And you let me dangle and thrash in my own world
and you always came back
You taught object permanence to my soul
Taught my constricting pumping vessels to endlessly swell
 
I was tiny, broken, and devoted
And in your expansiveness, you scooped me up
the air was heavy and thick that you and I shared--
Your eyes were gleaming soul spaces, deep knowing pools,
 
With you I could curl up, quiver and shake  
dangle off all edges
Your gentle glowing grace could always reel me back.
 
Thus, I was free to go to the limits of being
I could be everything I was in all my darkness  
and all my glory
I could tread the earthly and heavenly divides
I could get lost to my heart's desire  
 
My secure base from which to explore  
an earthly guide allowing me to stare my  
most heavenly and demonic aspirations
straight in the eye....  

By you, I become most acutely
Me.
By you, I become most intensely,
most acutely
Human.