Traveler Holds the Moon

Day 29 of the Soul Card Journey
with Elizabeth Crawford of Soul's Music
Soul Cards by Deborah Koff-Chapin
at http://www.touchdrawing.com/

 Traveler

wants to

hold life to her

like a huge

buttery yellow

moon.

She wants to

sip summer

out of a periwinkle blue cup

and listen to frogs

serenade

every evening

beside the pond

in a place

where winter

never comes.

Traveler wants

to roll downhill

with six tumbling

golden puppies,

to watch babies smile,

and old couples

hold hands.

She wants

to watch

the sun go down

beside the sea

for six thousand more

spectacular sunsets,

and wake to watch

the  sun peep

up over the hill

six thousand and one more

 hopeful mornings.

The older

she gets,

the farther she walks,

the more she wants

to hold close

all that is

swiftly

and silently
slipping and sliding

away.

The haunting voices

of the Old Ones

sometimes

call to her

from strange and
owl-filled

forests,

dripping branches

playing timpani

on the canopy,

the ancient trees

singing

to her

like a

last weary sigh.