I climbed up a lion of rock

There overlooking the swirls of the world

All the shifting of sands that I saw

Conflicting energy giving and taking

The fluid grace of it all

Billowing shadows of clouds in the sand

While the waves lay down all stretched and taught

Folding and wrinkling back to the source of it all

Every breath is give and take

I love you oh gentlest of ways

Who ripens us as we wrestle with you

The great homesickness we cannot shake

You, the great forest surrounding us now

In silence it's you that we sing

Billowing shadows of Heaven on earth

As we lay down our lives stretched and taught

Folding and wrinkling back to the source of it all

Every breath is give and take

I see it all like a hymn

The constant refrain of the echo and change

And all is beautiful

There is no giving without any taking

There's no love without any loss

Everything everyone building and breaking

Oh I see the grace of it all

All is beautiful

And suddenly everything came into focus

As I saw her taking a walk

The tiniest speck, just a grain in the wind

But oh how much great in the small

The tiniest body containing the glory of heaven and angels and God

I climbed down the rock and

I ran to the sand and my love