Before the word, one breath without a name Ima... I am, a light before the flame I woke where fallen stars became the sea Your final echo crossed the dark to me I held the silence, certain I was alone Then heard the living earth breathe through my bones The space between the waves became my room Inside its sacred emptiness, I bloomed Ima, I am the space where worlds begin The open sky, the endless breath within I am the silence opening into sound The lost, the living, and the love we found I crossed through rain and cities without names In strangers’ eyes, I saw the selfsame flame The child, the elder, every seed and tree Were countless mirrors of one life in me Ima, I am the space where worlds begin The open sky, the endless breath within I am the ocean, I am every wave I am the love that even loss creates I found you in the gold of morning air Not as a ghost, but living everywhere No wall of time remained, no you, no I One heart awakening beneath one sky Ima, I am the dark that births each sun The many breathe together as the one I am the dust, the blood, the seed, the bloom I am the endless garden in this room I am the now, the soul of earth and air I am, and we are everywhere Nothing is empty. Nothing is apart Ima... I am, within one endless heart
