Nightingale

There is a nightingale hiding in your soul,
who wants to weave your song
together with the sun, the moon, the stars
and the turning seasons.

It is an indigenous song
that emanates from
the power of creation itself

It sings
to the wind
to the grass,
to the sky,
to the morning-dew
without thought for its use
other than the need for its unique expression

And if you allow yourself to be sung
from the deepest source that
is not only the wound
you have been trying so hard to hide,
but the joy you allow yourself to feel,

not only will you heal your pain,
but the medicine of your voice
will be a summer sun giving its
healing warmth to some one else

as an essential note
in the great choir of belonging.

THE BIRD WHO FOUND ITS VOICE