Love’s Native Tongue

by Kathleen MacGregor

What would Love say?
You ask

With open jaw
Open throat
Heart tenderly opening
Belly
All the way down
Rippling
Open
O
O
Love would say,
Hello

Beyond hello

Words subtract
When Love would speak
Search not for words
Words are not
Love’s native tongue

So listen deeply
Move inside
Would Love wiggle?
Slide?
Dance?
Weep?
Fall to the ground?

Feel Love
Let Love move you
And listen
To the wordless answer

Feel Love’s pleasure
When you feel
Yes

Cry tears
For the times
Love said Hello
And was turned away
Shunned like an untouchable
Unrecognized
Feared and taunted

And now
Hello
Feel Love’s reception
Inside of you.

Now you are speaking
Love’s native tongue.