Then came Love
and, overflowing the Emptiness, became
The One,
Whose Nature is Love.
And the One, overflowing with Love, became
The Two,
Self and Other,
that Love could be experienced
and illuminate the world of manifested things.
And the Two, in their dance of endless Time, became
The Many,
the multitude, the infinity of beings
beyond number.
Thus were born the ten thousand worlds
To live and perish according to their nature
Which is Love.
Now from the Many,
The Two have come again, in Love,
Effacing Self and Other,
Taking the form of One,
Whose nature is Love.
For this world is
Love in its beginning
Love in its middle
Love in its ending
This is called
Coming Home At Last
(For the wedding of Albert and Colleen D'Ossche, March 22, 1986