Before name
Before what peers back in the looking glass
Before every thought
Before the feelings as they rise and fall
Before any achievement
Before ideas of good or bad
Before the notion of man or woman
Before any role – mother, daughter, friend, partner
Before form
Before depressed
Before anxious
Before shy
Before poverty
Before wealth
Before religion
Before heterosexual
Before bisexual
Before homosexual
Before
orientation
Before black
Before white
Before colour
Before everything
Indeed, everything
There is
You
Clear like the mountain lake
Innocent like the first spring raindrop
Perfect like the rose petal
Bright like the sun
and intoxicating like the moon
Still, silent, eternal
Changeless, formless, wordless
End the confusion, let’s
and come home
Come home.
Love and courage,
Leah