Love Stays

It might seem simple.

The universe vibrates in your face
until you are silent and your voice
disappears.

The joy on your face
eclipsed
so many times
by something or someone
that resembled a vanishing
of the expectation
of permanence.

But it is not simple.

It is not easy to to forget
your identity
in the presence
of God.

Time leaves me
one breath after another
and again I marvel
at the ways in which
love stays and kindness
is never far away.