Yours to Keep (new poem)by Tim Kavi
walking with you
I awakened from sleep
you led me to your truths
loving you deeply, I realized
I am yours to keep,
I uttered this to the world:
mothers of compassion
why do you weep?
gather the chicks in your wings
are there no willing souls
to waken from sleep?
have not your sayings
remained spoken?
or is the Goddess story
only now unfolding?
hasten their token!
mighty lessons
bring a mystic pleasure
while war abounds
you speak peace
with truce as your treasure!
sisters of compassion
bind the wounds
of the healing ground
of beings united
in being found
draw the water
out of cistern
and ocean
with graceful love
your only potion
lovers of compassion
do you not seek
a gentility of truth
in how you love
the truth to speak!
for only in that ground
of grace that I do wed
will I walk a certain
path, finally. a restful bed
has not your heart bled?
To hold all of us closer
is the answered prayers
of the doting Mothers
hearing all that is said
casting all of our cares?
do we not call out?
do we not cry out?
answer swiftly
the sacred call
to help, enlighten all!
