I held you in my heart today,
feeling your weariness and your readiness
to lay down your swords at last
and come home to rest
in love. 

  Let what is past be held in only love. 

When it is finished and when
you are ready to begin again, I will meet you
with only welcome and ask of you
only to do the same for me
in love. 

  Let what is future be held in only love. 

You held me in your heart today,
feeling my weariness and my readiness
to pick up all the pieces we lost
along the way and hold them
in love.

  Let what is present be held in only love.