To stand at the sidelines of a life
to hear and know by hearing
“this is why I love him”
“this is how he made me better”
“this is who we are together”
This
this this-ness of things
This showing
and telling
and sharing
if there wasn’t love –
love in the telling
and in the hearing,
I’d be a voyeur
as it is, I confess –
to borrow from Merton a bit –
I am a grateful bystander
graced by their beauty,
their love, their lives,
even if only from a distance
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