Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Heart. 2003
When we let
Spirit
Lead us
It is impossible
To know
Where
We are being led.
All we know
All we can believe
All we can hope
Is that
We are going
Home
That wherever
Spirit
Takes us
Is where
We
Live.
translated by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead
and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are
is called Here,
And you must treat it as
a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it
and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen.
It answers,
I have made this place
around you,
If you leave it you may
come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same
to Raven.
No two branches are the same
to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does
is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows
Where you are.
You must let it find you.