Always

[Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, spoken]

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Two-spirited are you

A prophet pregnant with proof of human possibility

Two-spirited are you

Your life a crucible of chemically creating human gold

In awe I witness as you breathe freedom into rigid definitions of Yin and Yang

You hold two worlds like the sky holds the stars

Surely and with reverence

In your arms I feel heaven

In your presence I know grace

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Blessed am I to be loved by you

I am a tall tree growing

Leaves erupting

Roots burrowing deep

Feasting in fragrant earth

I am a constellation

Pegasus flying

Gods crying

Sacred wonder

With you beside me I hear the heavens

With you behind me I dance in joy

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Blessed am I to be loved by you

In the silver-flecked night Orion's arrow flies true

Shattering shards of pain into orange sun rays

Blessed am I to be loved by you

Blessed am I

If I am frightened will you catch me when I fall?

Always

Catch me when I fall

Always

Always

Let me nod to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments

Love is not true love which alters

When an alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove

Oh no

It is an ever-fixed mark that looks upon tempests and is never shaken

Never shaken

Oh great dreamer who art our eternal mother

Hallowed be thy flame

Thy rapture come

Thy songs be song

Enjoy at thy simple wonder

Give us this day, our daily breath

And forgive us our hubris

As we forgive that which makes us complicit

And lead us not into extinction but deliver us from further benumbment

For thine is the history and the mystery and the moral

Forever and ever and ever

And lead us not into extinction but deliver us from further benumbment

For thine is the history and the mystery and the moral

Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever

May we remember your beauty

May we remember your beauty

May we imagine a glorious and just future

May we imagine a glorious and just future

Blessed are we to be loved by you

Blessed are we to be loved by you

Blessed are we to be loved by you

Who every day makes it all brand new

Oh, my beloved

Come to me

Come to me and sing as only you can

I open up my arms

Come to me

And sing