You Are That Song

You Are That Song

there’s a song

you heard

a million years ago

in an ancient

ancient lifetime

and though

you’ve forgotten

all the words

and its tune

fragments of it

float out

sometimes

from a mysterious

unknowable chamber

deep inside

yourself

beckoning you

each time

you hear a haunting,

wrenching

tantalizing bit

of that

primordial melody,

you go a little bit insane,

become,

a little bit undone

as if 

there is

in your chest

a wordless

tongue of fire

which for days

can lie quiet 

and asleep

while you run around

doing errands

and chasing shadows

in the world

until a note 

from this song 

stirs deep 

inside yourself

igniting

the quiet 

tongue of flame

to explode sweet

unbearable pain

and suddenly

you are steeped

in a great sadness

you feel restless

and forlorn

as if you realize

you’ve been lost

cold and lonely

for a million

tragic years

have forgotten

who you are and

where

you’ve come from

and this

elusive song

that you can never

completely hear

reminds you

of all

that you’ve forgotten

and weeps silently

as your blood

each time

this mysterious melody

stirs

it’s calling you back

a little more insistently

it’s also

your way Home

my dearest

my friend

my heart

my precious soul

for me 

you are that song

for me

you are that song

16th january 2014

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from the upcoming book "The Truth Is Love"

photo credit: with thanks from Jill Lillis on facebook

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