Let me speak
The verdant whisper of trees
The world’s breath blown
Between my bodies
Through my lives
I am a forest of time
Seed, sapling, stump
Maiden, mother, master
Of life and death and
Life again
Within my shadow
Grow the thousand things
At play, running and returning
At rest, dreaming and awaiting
As I bend and shape for them
The star’s indifferent love
Into the sweetness of one
Thousand tongues
Each proclaiming
Together, with you –
“I am the Light,
I am the Truth –
I am the Way”