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Sitting With Her on The Heath

Sitting With Her on The Heath

At the top of the hill

Once again seeking

Fleeting Serenity's illusive lair

Familiar failure beckons

Yet this time falters and gasps

Stumbling in awe

Yielding to bow

In the presence

Of Mother.

 

Acknowledging Her

I let free Her faint

Footsteps to fade

As I ignore the curving finger

Seeking my attention

For I too must now pause

And sit quite still

To witness Mother

Sharing Herself making

This moment go on

Forever

 

I sense I am still summoned

Called here from my haste

Back to an innocence

Now only glimpsed

By those of spirit and courage

Free but good enough

To slip the shank

That binds calm within

Subject and tied to searching

And turmoil without.

 

So chastened I kneel to pray

That no one jumps in

Crassly without grace

Or moves out

Suddenly out of place

Unaware that in still silence

She more clearly and firmly

Speaks.

 

Because here

In the theatre of wonders

Our awakening breathes

New life into each sigh

Changing us back

Into our self-same selves

So that re enchanted

This moment of faith

Is forever protected and hidden

Not and never to die

In us.

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