Prophesy (POEM)

Prophesy

And it happened one day that,
As I was walking alone in the deep woods
The time arrived that had been awaiting my arrival
And the sun melted the last from my skin
And I stopped
And a single tear tickled my cheek
And I looked up and beheld mother earth
Beholding me with her warmth
And I looked down at the sky
And laughed with my grandfather
And the river called the name I gave myself
After that time that the rocks had regarded me
And a single doe glanced my way
And a badger took his stories back
Above the top of the ground
Back under, and into the earth.

I saw my toes grow into roots
And my hands into leaves
That sucked in the new sunlight
Filtered through blessings
Far into the violet daylight
Past years, eons, moments
Through molecules of time
Breathing in Creator
Breathing in rain
Taking from
And then
Giving back
Simple
Life.

--Eric Marley
June 2012