Sing Back the Light

 

Because you have gone diving
into the darkness, explored the cracks
deep in the earth and swam
in the underground rivers of your soul
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Because you have traversed
the tunnels between worlds
to find your own heart’s pulse and longing
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Because you have written story after story
for lifetime after lifetime
and arrive here, now—
quaking in your naked truth.
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Because you have walked through
fierce fires and watched parts
of yourself turn to ash—
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Because you have alchemized your wounds,
metabolized your grief, and danced your love,
against all odds, in the midst of ferocious storms.
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Because you have planted seeds
in the still heart of winter
and believed in the harvest
when you could see no signs of life.
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Because you are a divine lover of the fertile dark,
and the Beloved mystery–and know the way
she teaches us to see with the inner eye—
and trust our inner compass.
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Because you have the courage
of the first morning star~
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Sing back the light
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Sing back the light
to the places that have forgotten—
sing back the light
to the places that are numb
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Sing back the light
to all that has been desecrated
and abandoned
sing back the light
to the desperate and hungry ones
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Sing back the light for the ancestors
who encircle us,
whispering instructions
while we sleep
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Sing back the light
to our children’s children’s children
who remind us –
everything is at stake
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Sing back the light
at this time of Holy Revelation
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Sing back the light
that heals the wounds of Separation
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Sing back the light—
because tonight
the whole world says—
I am tired, will you stay with me
when the flame flickers
in the darkest moments of this passage?
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Sing back the light
because you are the medicine
the new world is thirsting for
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because you are a star traveling
at the speed of love
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because you wear the wings
of the Dove who takes flight now
in the darkest hour.
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Sing back the light
because we are a mighty forest
growing up through scorched ground—
yes, we are the seeds
that open with just this kind of fire.
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sing back the light
because your song ignites my song
and the chorus is a swelling ocean
of Awakening—and we are just beginning
to hear our own roar.
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Sing back the light
because this is how we remember—
this is how we remember ourselves
past this ending
into the beginning….
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For in the beginning
there was the Word
there was the Song
and we are here now
to sing ourselves Home.
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Sing back the light!

©Laura Weaver

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