Love, I came so late to know You.
Beauty, always fresh,
Yet older than the world,
I came so late to love You.

I was looking for You
In all the wrong places.
I was looking for You
In flowers and in faces.

I became so ugly
Looking for You
Outside in the lovely
Things. They aren't You.

Things that are lovely
Only because of You.
Things that are ugly
Because they lack You.

Yet through my closed ears
You announced yourself.
You opened these ears
Deafened by too many answers.

You shone like a sun
Burning away the blindness
Of these eyes. Eyes drunken
By a lustful chase for beauty.

You breathed on me
And my breath returned.
The stench of my dead soul
Washed away. I'm alive!

Here You were
All this time
Hidden, quiet, soft
In this heart of mine.

Here You were
Waiting for me
To clear my eyes
To open my ears

Here You were
Hidden in plain sight
Speaking to my heart:
"There is so much more!"