Awakened

Sometimes you meet someone, and they make you see life completely different than you ever have in your entire life. You see beauty where there was once pain. You see flowers when there are none growing. You hear music for the first time with your deaf ears and taste foods prepared thousands of years ago for kings and queens. You learn things you never knew and experience things... Like love, the kind of love that turns your heart upside down and inside out. You feel for the first time, with your crippled hands, that you could not open... And see with your eyes, that have been blinded your entire life. This person is your music, your art, they are your picnic under the New Orleans oak tree of Love. This person has a awakened you... They are a miracle in your life, they are a blessing. This person, my dearest Love... Is You