Let something essential happen to me 
Something more than interesting
Or entertaining 
Or thoughtful

Let something essential happen to me
Something awesome
Something real 

Speak to me 
Make me burn and tremble and heal 
Explode me into tears of laughter 
And love that throbs and screams 

Let something essential happen to me 
Something awesome 
Something real 

Let something essential and joyful happen 
Like the blossoming of hope 
A grateful heart 
A surge of awareness as to how precious
each moment of  time with you is 

Let something essential happen to me
Something awesome 
Something real

Let something essential and passionate 
Strip me of illusion and self sufficiency 
Until I’m drunk enough 
To dare to speak and say 
Thank you
You are beautiful
I love you
Let’s live forever, beginning now