Glad to Be Here Now

I knelt there before Love

and begged her, pleaded with her

"Please, please forgive me," I said,

"I forgot about you,

and had you not come to me and reminded me of your presence,

I would still be where I was yesterday."

Love said to me,

"Get up;

get off your knees.

Sometimes, I'm a long time coming,

so during the in-between times,

you wait

and think of me;

make me up, invent my form and countenance.

Console yourself with those thoughts,

and soon enough, I will come."

"Ah," I said,

"My punishment and my gift."

Love smiled.

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