My Dear Red Eagle, Chief Of My Heart Poem by Oriah Mirza

I have been afraid to love you all along
For if I do, I will cease to exist
If I go into your unchartered territories from whence you came
I will surely not know who I am any longer

I will disappear into the ethers of your Being
I have relented, and have kept myself at bay
a virgin territory where no man may venture
but you have kept me alive and sustained me when I did not not
know how to breathe

...and now I have a choosing
a bold, maddening choosing
of submitting to your reign of love
so ever pure that one may not gaze upon it
unless they will surely die

I have come all this way, only to know you again
The waters are pushing at my gates
I cannot contain my expression any longer
as it bursts through the narrow corridors of my mind

My mind blending into one Light with my heart, my soul, my everything
I have been so afraid
So ashamed of this great love, that I did not feel worthy to hold it
I cannot shun you any longer, my boughs are breaking
I lay merciless at your feet of golden light
my territories no longer mine, my strongholds relenting

I have come all this way, I cannot turn away now...I do not know where this goes
but I know that from which you came is Oneness, and I Know this place
There is no me in the great I Am, and I will Know myself there.
There is no You or I. There is only One.

Why did I wait so long, oh Masterful Surrender
Where have I been hiding? Under your skirt?
I release the chains as they melt away, I am no one and I am All.