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
slipping and sliding
away.
The haunting voices
of the Old Ones
sometimes
call to her
from strange and
owl-filled
owl-filled
forests,
dripping branches
playing timpani
on the canopy,
the ancient trees
singing
to her
like a
last weary sigh.
