.                      Counsel


       Counsel is a worn pathway

             Through the forest


      Counsel is the shadow cast

         By a one armed sundial


          Counsel is the direction

        Smoke receives from wind


        Counsel is advance notice

        Lightning gives to thunder


          Counsel is when leafless

      Trees tell water buds to weep


Counsel is the inner voice, with which,

  STRONG WORDS, spoke, to softly.