When Distance is no Boon

Meister Eckhart

When I was the stream, when I was the
forest, when I was still in the field,
when I was ever hoof, foot,
fin and wing, when I
was the sky
itself,
no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever
wondered was there anything I might need,
for there was nothing
I could not
love.
It was when I left all we once were that
the agony began, the fear and questions came;
and I wept; I wept. And tears
I had never known before.
So I returned to the river, I returned to
the mountains, I asked for their hand in marriage again,
I begged --I begged to wed every object
and creature.
And when they accepted,
God was ever present in my arms.
And God did not say,
"Where have you
been?"
For then I knew my soul - every soul
has always held
God.