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Xavier Rudd, Malkin Bowl, Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Xavier Rudd

Love fills him
Overflows
A river
A gentle flood
Of love
Washes over me
Over all of us
Fills us
Intoxicant

His smile
Radiant
A broadcast ecstacy
Writ across his face
An unfathomable beauty
Of being
Filled with love

I remember
Being filled like that
Being love
Being grateful
For every moment
In every moment

I remember
Being flawed
Knew I was flawed
Still, I was full with love

I remember
Being in pain
Debilitated by suffering
Still, I was full with love

I forgave the flaws of others
Because love forgave my own
While I worked to repair them

I empathized with the pain of others
Because love allowed me to feel my own
While I followed a healing path

So I thank him
Up on the stage
This beaming intensity
Of beautiful light
As I sing the refrains
As I sway
To the rhythms of the music
To the flow of his love
To this man
This beautiful man

Who is not without faults
Who is not without pain
Yet is filled to overflowing
With love

I thank him
For the reminder
That I can be filled with love
That I can be love
Without first making myself
Perfect

Because I have been
Before

Because in this moment
I am again

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Image From Another Time, Marin Headlands Overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge to San Francisco, California, USA

The Bridge and the Fog

He dreamed of another time 
A time that never was 
In a place that might have been 

He dreamed of a bridge 
From a land spare and dry 
To a fabled city on a hill 

He dreamed of a fog 
That stood between 
Where he was 

And where he could be 

In the dream 
The fog never cleared 
He never crossed the bridge 

When he woke 
He realized the fog 
Was the nightmare of his childhood 

The bridge was a path 
From the child to the man 
From who he was 

To who he could be 

He would never cross the bridge 
So long as he held the fears 
Of the child 

He would never overcome the fears 
Until he allowed himself 
To feel the child’s pain