Traditional Apache Wedding Blessing

Now you will feel no rain
For each of you will be shelter to the other

Now you will feel no cold
For each of you will be warmth to the other

Now there is no loneliness for you
There is no more loneliness

Now you are two persons
But there is one life before you

Now go to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness

And may your days be good
And long upon the earth

Reiki Principles

The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
Just for today, do not anger
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer.
Pray these words to your heart
and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder, Usui Mikao

The Tunnel's End - Part I

Picturing the first time
I saw you
From a distance
And you looked
Up at me with the most beautiful
Dark brown eyes
And threw me
The sweetest smile to date
And right then
I lost myself
I lost myself in you completely
But you weren't ready
You didn't even know I was married
I went straight home & divorced my wife
Sold my children to the highest bidder
And freed myself for you
But you weren't ready
So I picked up the kids
Took back my wife
And went on living the life I knew
I could never make work
And any chance I got
I saw you
Sinfully
Because no matter what we did
Just sitting in Central Park
Together
Or walking with you
And your girlfriend
It didn't matter
I wanted you
And you knew it
And you wanted me too
And eventually
And slowly
You began to tell
Me
But I already knew, inside
I felt you
Your love
For me
And you kept on telling me how much
You loved me
And you gave me the courage
To leave my wife again
To divorce all I'd lived
And worked for
Before everything
Had gone
Wrong
And, even when I asked
If you would take
My love
If I gave it to you
Again you weren't ready
Not because you didn't love me
But because your life
Was still not free
To be given away
Completely
The way you knew
We'd have to be
And you explained this to me
Without knowing my other side
My life, falling apart
And finally the divorce
Lasted two years
And cost us our last child
But I left nothing
To chance with you
So I thought
Hired you as my attorney, my counselor
And had you
As my friend
And of course I told you
Everything
Every stage and detail
Of my failed life
Even things most would not share
I could never hide from you
And I didn't
Instead we made
Our time
What time we could find
And I was begging to see
The tunnel's end
...

Holy Mother

Oh Holy Mother
She who art from the sea
Forever is thy name
Here on earth
Where we have lived and walked together
As we open
Without judgment or sorrow
For one another's hearts
The voices of eternity speaks
From us
To one another's souls
Now and forever more
As it was before
Always it shall be
-Sayla

"Translated from the walls inside the Temple of Isis"
(some lines may be missing)

Open Mind

A token of understanding
Is sometimes more infuriating
And less needed
Than a dose of simple reason
Let it go
Leave it alone
Stop being such a perfectionist
You can’t control everything
And you can’t change the past
But it always seems so simple
After mistakes are made
Once everything is lost
And there's nowhere to turn
Except inside
And finally begin
The transformation
And finally take the time
To wipe the slate clean
But what makes this time different
Is the secret I will share
With you
The difference is knowing
And keeping an open mind

The Love We Made

One day I will dance a parade
And shout for all the love we made
I'll carefully place each note forever
Inside an album of us together
For times apart keeps our souls colliding
Like atoms all at once dividing
A teardrop falls and's never lonely
Others follow 'cause I love you only
Peaceful yet this moment's pounding
The rhythm of my heartbeat sounding
And waking to your eyes is heaven
A dream's last thought to have you in them
When open to this moving picture
I'll hold a thought of us together