Reiki hands are branches into the sky

1.

you want to teach me your Reiki hands
and how to pickle pears

you speak of two trees entwining in the field,
branching heavily on the side where they face
each other, and the scientific explanation:
one tree branches heavily away from the wind,
causing a vacuum that the other tree is drawn
into and branches grow that way

but what of love you ask, do trees not feel each other,
do they not talk to each other, do they not reach out
to one another?

I have a picture in my mind, and it's always a
lone tree in the middle of nowhere, growing high and
wide into the sky.

But if you teach me how to heal my aloneness, we
might be giant oaks, we might be weeping willows
near a flowing river.

We might grow Paradise
or heaven on earth....


2.  

I don't know how to explain it to you.

I heard the ocean once.
I heard waves crashing.
I heard children laughing.

I breathe in the energy of life
as it travels up my breath
into a point of pale blue light--
I merge with bliss

And now I know the ecstasy of saints
the wisdom of sages
the healing hands of Christ.

I am loved beyond infinity
into my heart,
beating...