The Wind and Sky - with audio

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In the darkness came a light cast down as a shield of love and encouragement

Then the wind blew in from the north like a bony finger poking me in the ribs

It was cold and relentless, it blew up the mountainsides and over the snowy peaks

Spraying the dancing prisms in every direction like flocks of white arctic terns

It blew down the slopes and filled the Valleys in the black of moonless nights

Banging metal gates, chasing palm fronds, like limbs with giant hands, leaving husks behind on the street

That looked like dried up sea turtles that had lost their way,

causing strife among all

It blew over my nights, in my sleepless dreams, and then onto sunlit harrowed day

There, breathing threats, anguish and fears in the breast of beasts, and in the families of man

The winds crashed through the window of life onto the desktop, scattering script and parchment

Blowing letters right off the page; passing them over one week of days and into the next

Blasting they came over  and over, like restless whispering souls in the swirling strokes of The Starry Night

Herded, pushed, and lead along by the unseen beating wings of countless celestial singing angels

It blew in sickness and then carried it out again with the dust and leaves and old papers strewn about

The hand of the Great unseen Spirit sent the wind to cleanse the land, to scrub it clean and to test each one

It came to refresh the air and all the creatures in its path like children waiting to be clothed and fed

So forceful was the caress from this tide of unseen waves that it swept the future into the past,

As it broke into my sleep again and again so that I wandered aimlessly and anxiously

Walking and working in places of the past, lost and confused,

making deals for no one, disoriented in the once familiar,

Searching out friends that were no longer there, trying to find my way back in other cities and times

Then a voice spoke from within my sleep, within my heart saying; “today is one of special happenings”

“A time of new beginnings,” but someone called my name, and then again, till I awoke and went with her

She took my hand and showed the way outside to the yard, and gestured toward the sky in awe

Dawn, covered in a stunning onward stretching shout of, burnt reds, pinks, and mauves,

Gentle, looking down upon us in innocence like a big blue eye baby covered in rose petals

The wind agreed to be silent for a while, as was the morning,

so that every still bosom might drink the milk of the newborn day

This Winter's day every beating heart,  great and small is renewed and the world is given life once more

There we were,  a part of it all,  I in my T-shirt and boxers, 

Love in her robe,  smiling at one another,

Sunlight in our hearts and in the eyes of our children.