Sometimes I can sit under a tree
looking into the spaces
between branches,
And wait on the silence...
looking into the spaces
between branches,
And wait on the silence...
~ Steve Godwin from "Just Another Song" in FINDING HEART
From the forest branches fading
birdsong offered
Self-sacrifice to a huge silence.
Dark formlessness settled over all
diversity
Of land and water.As shadows, as particles,
my body
Fused with endless night.I came to rest
At the altar of the stars.Alone, amazed,
I stared
Upwards with hands clasped and said,
"Sun, you have removed
Your rays: show now your loveliest,
kindlier form
That I may see the Person who dwells in
me as in you."