Monday 24 November 2008

Siobhan Mac Mahon's Poem - OPENING PRAYER

I will begin again to trust

the sound of the sea calling me,

hear the answering cry

of my souls body

beating a wild response

and feel a ripple of reply

echo through me

like a prayer.


I will begin again to breath

In rhythm with the earth,

moving beneath my feet,

moaning in her ecstasy,

a psalm, written

in the body of my soul.


And I will remember

the opening prayer

of my child’s birth

moving through me

like a dark river, in a line

ancient and unbroken,

spanning the oceans of time.


And I will know you here with me

dancing to the same beat

at the same time.


Dark currents pulling us home.

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