Venture there
In the wide world
Where the shadows are new
And the trees unknown to you
Venture there
Behind the far horizon
Where the creatures are strange
And their songs new to you
Venture there
Past the known
Where all is adventure
And none can bind you
A brighter day awaits me
When I can live with the clouds
And welcome the rains
And smile at the roaring winds
And embrace the sounds of a disquieted world
Let the quiet moments go
And bring on the loud
If only for a day
To know
To hear
To see
To feel
All that the music might bring you
I am the multitudes
With nothing between us all
And nothing to divide
And nothing to remain
when we are gone
I am little more than the stardust in you
I cannot but hope
That in the noise
In the shouting
In the cacophonous din
of hateful words
A silence might slither
Like a garter through the grasses
Let us rest a while
Forget the winds
And the fires
And the rains
And the snows
And the frosts
And the grey
All the quaking
And the blowing
And the yelling
And the fighting
And all the things outside us
Let us rest a while
You
And me
For a moment
You
And me
And nothing else
Deep in the woods
My mind wanders
Beneath the dry leaves underfoot
Beneath the roots knotting
Beneath the critters crawling
Beneath the rains seeping
Beneath the very bedrock
Upon which it all stands
And there under the life I know
I find a life I do not
One of centuries
Millennia
Eons
But still I recognize
And see in that stony face
My own
In the silence
All is louder
Yet all that is louder
I find I can quiet
Till the silence
Reigns
Beneath the snow-covered boughs
I hear a whisper
From the snow
From the canopy
From the wind
From the gnarled, unmoving bark
It tells of a quieter truth
A quieter life
Hard, but slow
Chaotic, but steady
Cold, but full of life
That I might hear that story
And hold it in my unwooded heart
The earth quickens
I feel her beneath my toes
Breathing
Awakening
Warming
Shifting
Dancing
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