Bound to Your Breath

Because I am bound to your breath

I am free to roam the universe
like wind knocking down ripe fruit.

Because you have anointed me

I end my pilgrimage: with every step,

I arrive on a sacred world.

You become the infinitesimal star 

too distant to see in the night of my heart.

Yet you do to creation what a spark does 
to a cartload of dry cotton.
It happens in an instant 
when I remember your Name:
all creatures catch fire.
If there is another word for love
I will run naked through the streets
setting it on the tip of every tongue,
shouting, "Taste and see!"