The Perennial Heart: A Sacred Returning

Two women fell in love across an ocean.They met in person for the first time at the end of 2019, and for six weeks, they finally got to live what they had only been writing about. Then they had to part. Within days of saying goodbye, the world locked down. What was meant to be a short separation turned into sixteen months of waiting on opposite sides of the world. They had no way of knowing it would be that long.During the wait, one of them made herself a promise. She would write her love a poem for every day they had to spend apart.The Perennial Heart, A Sacred Returning is what those sixteen months produced. Four hundred and sixty-nine poems. One for each day of love, of longing, of grief, of faith, of patience, of devotion. Some written in moments of grace, when the love felt infinite and the distance felt thin. Others written in the heaviness of not knowing, when the path forward was invisible and all they had was trust.This is what it sounds like to love someone across time and space. To keep your heart open when every circumstance tries to close it. To wait, trust, write, and refuse to give up."I never knew before that it’s possible to exist simultaneously in two bodies, to feel life through two hearts on two opposite sides of the world.""Patience measured by the silence between heartbeats.""What if I told You that We used to be the same thing?Before bodies. Before names. Before this planet decided to split Us down the middle and scatter the pieces across oceans and time zones just to see if We'd return.We were one once. Same marrow. Same breath. Same heartbeat.""I want to feel You in placeshuman senses can't reach.To share the same life forcethat runs through Your veins.To press skin to skin with Your Soul.Closer than bodies.Deeper than touch."- From The Perennial Heart, A Sacred Returning Read more