O my love I must hold you in my arms,

For I have been beyond familiar things:
and distant stars have burst within my sight,
and wide star fields have wrapped me round about,
and I have drowned in silences too deep for thought.

For I have seen what all come finally to see:
that all life’s forces spin within each point,
that all the separate waves are but the ocean’s shape,
that you and I apart become the same.

And so my love I must hold you in my arms.