Traveler By the Sea

Day 20 of the Soul Card Journey with
Elizabeth Crawford of Soul's Music
Soul Cards by Deborah Koff-Chapin
of http://www.touchdrawing.com/

Traveler

comes from

the sea.

Even when

she is

away from it,

its siren song
calls to her,

courses

through

her heart,

ebbing and flowing

like her

bloodstream.
It replenishes
her spirit,
her stores of peace,
the sursurration
of the tide
washing through her,
through her ears,
her brain, her being,
until she is as calm
as the lull
between waves,
as strong and silent
as the smooth stones
scattered along
the ocean's shore,
as patient as
the sand dollar
that spins its house
from the sand and grit
around it and
carries it within.

On shore,

there be

fire,

the fire

of life.

It burns

and it beckons.
She must
surrender

to its danger,
for fire

is her

teacher,
and no one
can escape
its painful
lessons.

And then

there is earth,
its beauty
a banquet
to which
she is an
invited guest.

There is
the vastness
of the air,
the crooning song
of the west wind,
wooing her
wild spirit,
always calling her
away
from wherever
she puts down
roots.

In these

four elements,

she
houses
the sum of

her being,
anchors it
and gives it
wings.

Watch her.

She is

coming

out of the sea

now, she

is rising.

There is
a light

beckoning

her on the
path ahead,

and she is

trusting it

to guide

her way.

She gazes
one more time
at the sea,
then turns away.
She loves it,
but she must
leave it,
for she is
traveling,
always traveling,
and travelers
can't stand
still.