i love you

i love you

in this moment i just wanted to say that

i really really love you

i love all of you

today i was looking through the list of people who open my emails

and it was really hitting me that every single one of those email addresses

represents a real, living, breathing human being

many of you i’ve never met

some of you i’ve known personally and been friends with for years

it hits me in the heart to see that you care about my words

that you notice what i’m up to

that you follow along with this wily ol’ willy wonka on his strange adventures

that you journey realms of strangeness with this crazy ol’ pirate of the ether-seas

that you feel connected to the life of lil’ ol jb

it means a lot to me

and i’m crying now as i write this

i love you

i really love y’all

you are my people

my truest tribe

my soul fam

the mystics, the artists, the dreamers, the poets, the weirdos, the mad scientists, the entheonauts, the philosophers, the rappers, the swashbucklers, the round pegs who prolly don’t always ‘fit’ in the square boxes society has designed for us

you do fit though

you fit perfectly in my heart

you fit perfectly in this cosmos —
“like pit in nectarine,”
as i rapped so many moons ago

sincerely, you are splendid

you are an eruption of myriad miraculous flavors
dancing in unison
with unimaginable grace —
humming along
in accordance
with an ancient hymn,
saturated
with supreme
intelligence

i really love all of you

if my words have ever
touched your heart,
or been a lifeline for you in dark times,
or given you a spark of hope,
or inspired you to dream,
or let your inner child dance wildly,
or made you giggle,
or helped you open to the juicy fullness of life,
and melt into the flow,
it was all worth it.

and i cry again


wonderfully human

we are so wondrously human

and we are the fluid winds of infinity

it’s all included

it’s all grace

may my poetry forever include and affirm and redeem
all of it.

every heaven
every hell
every luminous realm
every dark abyss
every demon
every angel
every devil
every buddha
every llama
every sloth
every cheese sandwich

i find nothing ‘out there’
that is not also
‘in here’

so may i love
all of it.

may i hold it all in the fires
of the ever innocent heart
that it all may be
made new
and seen
in its true aspect —

returned
to its original
numinous template —

revealed
as nothing other than
numberless pure-souled children of
God

who were always simply
trying to find their way

Home.

i love you

home is now

let yourself rest

in ever-present

Love.






your friend,
jordan