There was a little weaver long ago
Who wove her warp and weft upon the shore
Upon the other side a love long lost
The river was too deep for her to cross

Upon the seventh day, the seventh Moon
The little weaver stepped back from her loom
She ran to the river to meet her love
Where black and white birds circled up above

She saw him waiting on the other shore
So close to her, and yet so very far
There was no bridge, and she began to cry
She wished upon the stars that she could fly

The circling birds took notice of her prayer
And one by one they came down from the air
Row upon row, the black-white rustling wings
Over the river softly whispering

The moment she believed her blurry eyes
She ran upon light feet into the sky
Higher and ever higher did she ride
Over the bridge and down the other side

At last she and her lost love could be near
On feathered feet she flitted without fear
Across the sky she ran the narrow way
To meet the one she loved for just one day

She floated gently to the starry shore
And there she saw the man who she adored
Her heart was whole, her love no longer lost
Her stars fell from the sky no longer crossed

She ran into his arms and wept with joy
An endless love which time could not destroy
For still we tell the story of their love
Where the world turns on the wing of the dove

The vulture is a peaceful bird
She watches, circles patiently
Waiting for life to become death
So she can gather what she needs

The vulture does not maim or slay
And causes neither harm nor strife
She walks in the shadow of death
And so turns death back into life

One small step forward
Two steps back
Three steps behind
The man in black

If man is five
And God is seven
Ride a ladder
Up to Heaven

Eleven balances the force
And thirteen rides
On a pale horse

After the lightning
Seventeen
Falls to the sea
Don't say --

I can say anything I want to say
And you can keep yourself from hearing
But you cannot stop me from speaking

I have a voice
And you can block it out
Cover people's ears with tape
But I can say anything I want to say

Life has claws
Life has teeth
Life is a conqueror
Life is a thief

Life is blood
Life is joy
Life is wild
Nothing is free

Life is incredibly confusing and complicated and scary
We are able to go on living because we are
Clever and courageous and strong
It's OK to admit sometimes that life is difficult
Sometimes we don't know what it means
Or if it's worth it to find out
But still we keep trying
Not because life is easy or straightforward or clean
But because there is no sense in not trying
If you are already falling
You might as well try to fly
And sing your own song all the way to the ground

O if we could only see
How much we need each other
Would we still spend our precious time
Trying to defeat each other?

The cannibalism won't stop
Till all of us are dead
Humanity is like a hydra
Eating its own head

You love your country
I'm sure that you do
I'm sure they all loved
Their countries too

You love your country
That's how you explain it
You love your country
And I love my planet

No matter how removed, how far
We are all made of the same stars
Beyond the pale, between the lines
Inextricably intertwined

Our consciousness holds us apart
From the Great Mother's other stars
But at the moment that we die
The Earth becomes part of the sky

You shall find if you shall seek
A million different ways to speak
Our tongue is not the only tongue
For we are not the only ones

In love and loss, in fight and flight
A thousand voices fill the sky
Still echoing across the land
I wish that I could understand

Sometimes I wonder about ants
Their tiny little alphabets
The verbal dances of the bees
Six nine and zero, eight and three

I wonder too about the whales
Who roam the ocean without sails
And sing their deep and haunting tunes
A million miles below the Moon

I wish that I could understand
The speech of creatures on the land
They bark and growl, whistle and hiss
What is the meaning of all this?

But we are not the only ones
And ours is not the only Sun
Who do I most wonder about?
One day I hope that we'll find out.

Deeper still the darkness waits
And the darkness has no face
You who hold no form, no shape
Which shape shall your shadow take?

Run run run
Like a rabbit
In an Ouroboros
Try try try to reach
The top of the
Snake
No one tries
To break down the walls
No one knows
What else might
Break

We live in a world of
Forces and fields
Energy and waves
It is black and white and grey
The mind paints rainbows
On the waves
And in the space between the stars
We make our frame
And see deep within the void
Our own face

Life does not create the threads
It weaves them like a loom
Lightning strikes the fertile Earth
And causes her to bloom
One raindrop falls into the sea
Swells into a monsoon
We rise and ride upon the tide
Still howling at the Moon

We were one
Now we are two
All of us
And all of you
We all say
"You people are monsters"
No one can say
It's not true
The only thing
That we can say
Is "I am less monstrous
than you"
I guess that's why
We all take sides
The only place
Where we can hide
The shadow of our enemy
Too dark to see
Our monstrous side

There once was a fire
It lit my way
In burning circles
Then came the rain
And now I walk in peace
And darkness

I feel really lost right now
I don't know what to do
Or where to go
I don't know who to ask
Or who to pray to
I don't know who I am
Or what I want

Sometimes I feel so lonely
As if no one understands me
And then I remember that everyone feels this way
That everyone feels weird and different
Like they don't belong

I see the world
Is it your world too?
Do I see our world
The same as you?

Do you see it
Drawn in nations
Or with no lines
Of demarcation?

How does our world
Look to you?
What is green?
What is blue?

Who are we
To decide?
Who are we
To take a side?

We are we,
I am me,
You are you,
That's all true

And if I listen
Close to you
I'll see the world
The way you do

I saw you
Looking at me
One night
Right through
My naked soul
Maybe you see me
Maybe you don't
I am looking at you
Do you know what you saw?

One time there was a little snake

Who said, why are the mice afraid?

The other snakes said I don't know,

For I have never killed a mouse!

And so the snake said,

I know! I will go and meet them at their house

The mice came to their windows

And they saw the tiny little snake.

It's one of THEM! They shouted.

They thought she was there to **** them all.

For you see, the larger snakes,

For thousands and thousands of years

Had killed millions and millions of mice

Which was the reason for their fear.

The little snake knew none of this.

She never had eaten a mouse

She only ate spiders and bugs

She slithered right up to the house

The mice came out by the dozens

And bit and scratched the little snake

She had just come to say hello

She thought there must be some mistake

They cut her into little pieces

And there came from them a cheer:

Hip hip hooray! We've killed the snake!

Now we won't have to live in fear.

You see, the mice had no idea

Just how many snakes there were

They thought they'd killed the only one

They thought that they had won the war

And so the little mice came out

And danced upon the little grave

Not knowing that the smell of blood

Had drawn a hissing knot of snakes

These larger snakes ate all the mice

And spilled their blood upon the land

The little snake could see no more

But if she could, she'd understand.

I wish that we could all have peace

And learn to respect one another

But though I think the war is dumb

I get why people hate each other

One side says "They attacked me first!"

The other says "They are the worst!"

The other then attacks them back

One side says "I have been attacked!"

Both sides say "They're attacking me!"

I simply cannot disagree

I simply cannot take a side

I wish there were a place to hide

From all this ******* violence

But if we didn't have this war

We would find someone else to fight

It's just the way we ******* are

I look up at the sky and I see stars
They look almost as dizzy as I feel
For thousands of years they showed us the way
The sky has changed, the world has turned the wheel
Into an open circle slowly walks
The one who brings the number to thirteen
A bridge over a river in the sky
The starry serpent and who stands between
But it was much easier to divide
In halves and thirds and fourths, by six and three
When there were twelve instead of a number
Whose only factors are one and thirteen
I wonder how much this will change our world
And in how many small and subtle ways
We will learn something of our unity
And of our individuality

I wish

We all felt love

No hate

We all felt joy

No sorrow

We all felt hope

No despair

How can I make this so?

I can begin with my own mind

Plant one seed of peace

Let it bloom into a tender vine

And wrap its tender green arms around the whole world

Until the whole world is encircled

Within the web of my peace

O if only

For a moment

Let it be

Life claws its way upward

Through hard ground

Gnaws its way upward

Through the flesh and bones of other animals

Cuts its way upward

Through forest and wood

Digs its way upward

Through sand and stone

Burns its way upward

Melting pathways through the world

Builds its way upward

Wood and glass and stone and metal

All so that we can stand for a moment

At the top of the world

Until something beneath us breaks free

Who hides in light

Behind the halo

Who stands in darkness

Casts no shadow

We are the Universe and so

When we look at the Universe

The Universe looks at the Universe

When you look into two mirrors that face one another

You see an infinite number of reflections

How many reflections

Does the Universe see?

Infinity to the power of infinity

I saw a lightning strike

It was close by

In the clouds

They were soft grey innocent like a

Tabula rasa

And the sky wrote on them

One bolt of bright lightning

Moving swiftly from right to left

There was a sound

Like a snake or a flame

A hiss

Exactly simultaneous with

The appearance of the lightning

Three seconds later

I heard the thunder

What did I hear

When I saw the lightning?

I can still remember it

The moment that I lost my faith

I was just sitting in a classroom

When I decided to think it through

I threw Pascal's Wager to the wind

Held instead Occam's Razor

And thought, if God really loves us

These are all just empty threats

And how much else has been a lie?


I still thought there must be a God

And so I looked through all the books

And everything I read rang true

And everything I read rang empty

The books all sounded just the same

How could I choose one of these Gods?

I thought that either all of them were right

Or all of them were wrong.


And so I thought,

There is no God.

That answered almost all my questions,

But I felt a sense of loss

I had always been promised Heaven

Though I felt somewhat relieved

No one looking over my shoulder

No one judging my deepest thoughts

Suddenly the world felt colder


And even though I felt such wonder

That we'd got here on our own

And even though I felt so free

I had never felt so alone


And to this day once in a while

I ask in my mind all the Gods

To show me a specific sign

So they can reach me if they want

The signs I've seen all point to

The idea that we all are One

The God we seek is

The sum of our collective consciousness

In harmony with the Universe as a whole


But every time I think I see a sign

I remember in the back of my mind

How easy it is to see

Patterns in the sand

                    the stars

                    the static

And fill in the gaps

With a solid shape

Only the sharpest razor may divide

The shape back into grains of sand

The constellation back into its stars

The bolt from the blue back into static

God into the gaps in our knowledge

The empty spaces that fill our souls

With awe and mystery and wonder

I am the world

I love the fool

One open flower

On top of a hill

I am the fool

I love the world

Though she is iron

She is my gold

O

Where do I go

I don't know

No matter where I go

I am standing in the centre

Of my horizon

How I cling to the Earth

With my hands and feet

The dove may lend me her wings

But I lack her sense

Of direction

Faith to fly through the storm

Two wings

One blue horizon

No land in sight

somewhere between
0 and 1
probability

God only knows
Where we came from
God only knows
Where we'll go

If we are all one cosmic mind
Then God only knows what we know

God only knows
What we see
God only knows
What we seem

And if this is the mind of God
Then we are what God dreams

Patterns in the sand
Patterns in the water
Stars in our eyes
Light of the father

One foot in the water
One foot in the sand
Light of the daughter
Stars in our hand

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                         ­                                                                 ­              nowhere
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                                           nothing              everything                  until
                     looking in on      one              zero
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             looking out on                        
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                                                          ­     1

O
Let go
It's OK
O
Take a breath
Take a trip
Ride into the wave
O
Let it take you back
To the starting place
You were gone so long
Maybe you were wrong
Maybe you were never gone
O                            1                              ­O
Here and gone, zero and one
Where has one ended
And the next begun
It's all the same wave
It's all the same place
O
It's all the same ride
Take a trip
Take a breath
O
It's OK
Let go
O

In the beginning
There was nothing
Nothing was alive
Nothing poured out nothing from the
Darkness
Cast no shadow
Through twelve mirrors
Out poured
Everything
Light
Hidden candles
Through the empty space
Where the thirteenth stood waiting above
Between two sides
Of the same dark river of light
One foot in the water
One foot in the sand
The water flowed down from Heaven
And turned against itself
Blown forward and back
By the winds of time
Darkness against darkness
Electricity began to sparkle in the water
Six mirrors turned against six mirrors
Lightning struck twelve times
Melting the sand that fell from the sky as stars
And turning it to invisible glass
Twelve spheres that joined at the centre
Where was hidden
Nothing
In the beginning

Sun is my father
He brings me light
Earth is my mother
I speak with her voice
Moon is my other
We keep the balance
Sky is the ancestor
From whence we have come
They light my way
Home

The Outside Void Spills Over