[Female] Your voice moves through the room like cello through the floor; something underneath my name unfastens one door more. The cup is warm between my hands, the evening gathers blue; I feel the life I could not speak find language here with you. [Female] So much of me was folded where the daylight could not go. Now tenderness has touched the seam, and all my rivers know. [Male] I set my keys beside your flowers, draw a chair beside your own. You can tell me what is stirring; we have made this evening home. I love the way your laughter interrupts the solemn sky, and how you let a question live without demanding why. [Male] Let the difficult be spoken. Let the beautiful take time. I am here to learn your seasons as you come to know mine. [Female] There is an ember under every name, a living center nothing could erase. I turn toward what trembles, let it meet my eyes; the room grows wide enough to hold my whole life. [Both] Where the mirror turns to water, where the hidden colors run, I can feel the whole world soften when I stop dividing love. Palm to palm, the current deepens, heel to earth, the feeling stays; we are crossing into living what our hearts have learned to say. Oh, let the silver open, let the tender fire through. I am more myself beside you, and there is more of you. [Female] I carried little photographs of who I ought to be, held them up against the sun until I could not see. Now every unfinished woman I have been can take her place; I recognize her courage in the changes of my face. [Female] There is grief beneath the beauty. There is beauty in the grain. I can touch the old remembering without becoming pain. [Male] You rest your head against my chest; I feel your shoulders ease. The window holds the mountains, their dark branches moving free. Tomorrow we will walk there, bring the bread and take our time; tonight I warm your tired feet and listen as you unwind. [Male] Every promise has a morning, every kindness has a shape. Love becomes the things we practice in the ordinary day. [Female] What a strange and shining turning— sunset opening into dawn. I can bless the road behind me with my living moving on. All those years within a heartbeat, all that distance in a tear; something I had called forever finds its doorway into here. [Both] Where the mirror turns to water, where the hidden colors run, I can feel the whole world soften when I stop dividing love. Palm to palm, the current deepens, heel to earth, the feeling stays; we are crossing into living what our hearts have learned to say. Oh, let the silver open, let the tender fire through. I am more myself beside you, and there is more of you. [Female] I thought the glass would break me if I looked beyond the shine. Now I see the frightened places asking for a little time. I sit beside their silence; I let their stories end. What I could not bear to look at, I can finally befriend. [Male] And I meet you in the kitchen, with the sunlight on your cheek. You are smiling at the kettle; there is nothing you must prove to me. I kiss the corner of your mouth, you catch my hand and stay— how astonishing, this gladness with a whole unhurried day. [Both] Turn toward the trembling. Turn toward the flame. Let every scattered color have a place within the frame. Turn toward the living. Let recognition grow. The deeper we are present, the more there is to know. [Female] Only a little of this ocean ever rises into words. Still you listen to the shoreline, still the deeper tide is heard. [Male] Every day another opening, every touch another shore. I can love the woman here and keep discovering more. [Both] Where the mirror turns to water, where the hidden colors run, we can hold our different stories in the shelter of one love. Palm to palm, the current deepens, heel to earth, the feeling stays; we are crossing into living what our hearts have learned to say. Let the silver carry sunlight. Let the tender fire shine. There is room for all your becoming; there is room for all of mine. [Female] I lift my eyes. The glass is clear. [Male] I take your hand. Our life is here. [Both] The water settles. The light stays.
