What’s left after the gross stuff
…and the sun said:
I love you from the center of my being.
I love you all the way to my soul.
I love you to the depths of me that even I haven’t even truly explored.
ANSWER by Sarah McLachlan
I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will be there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can’t look downIf it takes my whole life
I won’t break, I won’t bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You’ll still be burning so brightCast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
Place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fightIf it takes my whole life
I won’t break, I won’t bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
‘Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all burned out
You’ll still be burning so brightCast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
I came home tired
You can tell from the slump of my shoulders
You told me to sit and don’t bother to cook
As I was dozing off
I felt you lift my leg and warm lotion covered my skin
You massaged my feet when I know your ankle is hurting
I thanked you because it felt so good and I felt better
You said you didn’t do it for me
I smiled and felt even better.
i submit myself to love’s threshing floor
and i am yours to knead as you please
i bleed willingly and joyfully for you
and i wake at dawn everyday
feeling the misery of being without you
but i give thanks for another day
of being able to love you
in the middle of the day i pause
and think of you
and meditate on your love’s ecstasy
when i lay down to sleep
it is your name that I silently whisper into the night
you are my heart