~*~ A Single Owl Feather ~*~

I have begun to think life is about living a dream,
I suppose it’s the same for any woman or man.
When in life your cards are dealt, you play them out,
All the choices lay right there in your hands.

You have a choice to covet your cards really close,
Always afraid to take a chance to play out your hand,
Or you can throw in your lot, and bet all you’ve got,
Take a chance on living, and be a brave woman or man.

It takes a strong woman or man to live for their dream.
You need determination, and incredible drive.
You have to allow yourself to go with the life force,
As living is only for those not afraid to be alive!

I feel such overwhelming sadness in this spring moon,
I feel the breath of her mysterious spirit it seems.
I felt her in the land, and the lake, and the trees
I felt her moving in the hills, and in the streams.

As this April earth comes alive, its body and blood,
Sprouting of life, such a joy begins to unfold.
All around me is born again in freshness and flood,
A gentle spirit’s birthing can be retold and retold.

The earth, swelled with new life, cycles and turns,
Somehow never ending but always just begun.
The mystery weaves with the wind through the trees
For another spirit fading dark into the sinking sun.

No sound of a word, but the spirit is heard,
In the distance, an owl’s hoot rises and breaks.
As the scream of the osprey cuts through the wind
So, the sacred wolve's call echoes and fades.

In velvet soft darkness embracing the land,
In the quiet of the breath that she breathed,
The sound of her laughter somehow I can hear,
In the gentle breeze, through the budding trees.

In the dark when the clouds come sliding by,
Illuminated by the moon shining into the night.
I swore I saw her spirit drifting happily by,
In the glow of the palest moonlight.

As I think about life, dying, and the cards,
I wonder sometimes what life holds in store.
And just as I felt anger creeping into my mind,
A single owl’s feather softly landed onto my floor.

Art: Grandmother Moon - Debra Colburn