To the Sun and back…

I see the eagle – my heart is soaring

Escaping the bonds of my earthly self

The eagle spins – my mind is reeling

Perched upon this rocky shelf

The water glistens – the eagle dives

My spirit listens to the lives

that pass before me, that slowly fade

Like distant memories or dreams floating away

This mountain cliff is etched with life

Millions of years unseen by eyes

Jagged, sharpened, like the talon

and echoes back the eagle’s cries

I hear her cry, I hear her song

We’re both alone, and we belong to

Fire of sunlight, stretch of sky

Becoming one, like heat on the horizon

Singing & screaming – harmonies mesh

Dying & dreaming – spirit and flesh

I ride upon her feathers, look out through her eyes

Ride the wind that swallows, follow where she flies…

I rise upon the heat that spirals

Embrace the day and night with wings

Ascending high, my sister soars

and touches deep rememberings

She leads me nowhere, she takes me home

I now return to where the stone

has turned to sand, and I can rest my body on the land

A thousand years – with feathers in my hand

A thousand tears – the eagle takes my hand

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