Ballad of the Winds of Silence

A voice rose once, to greet me in the forest

as if it came from nowhere

It seemed to surround me

pervading everything

It echoed

in the twigs crackling beneath my feet

the leaves rustling in the sunlit trees above me

and the rumbling brook by my side

It came from the meadows

the animals

the sky

and the Earth

It rose from the chasm of my soul

It rolled like a mist through the trees

and softly spoke

It wasn’t a voice

it wasn’t in tone or sound

but it bade me rest

for the tree

and the brook

the wind

and the rain

and the earth

stood and embraced me

with the warmth of a mother’s love