Song of One

                                                Song of One

Solo: I woke upon another shore, beside an unfamiliar sea; where someone         
          came and spoke to me with words I couldn't understand. I felt the newness
          of it all, and didn't cry, at first, for help; I didn't know I was alone.

Group: We who enter have been humbled
            To the knowledge that we own;
            We, who started off alone,
            Have come together.
            There was something we forgot;
            In confusion we did stray,
            'Til the rounded way
            Reminded us again.

            We are looking on an open ocean
            Now,
            Where constant breezes
            Show us
            Clouds escaping into nothingness;
            Where waters rise,
            And disappear in air,
            And ambling, sun-filled shadows
            Melt into the sands.
            We have visions
            Stretching far beyond this great horizon,
            And we touch the burning sun                                       
            To feel the silent heart that's beating there.

  Solo:  I sing as if to know I am,
            To understand what I can be.
            I raise a shout and hear the call
            Of one who answers 'Anything at all!'

            I'd fly to somewhere else, and be
            Where green is full and clear (like HERE)
            I'd rise into the constant blue,
            The open eye of someone's sea,
            Where I could be alone and free,
            Where I might disappear (like HERE)

            Sunshine beams invade my skin
            As, underneath my skin,
            I feel a reason breaking free;
            The scars of other seasons' wars
            Grow still. They wear like something done,
            But staying on, assuring me
            That I am one.

            And I can feel
            Reality emerging from the rush
            That warms and fills my heart;
            This native heat, suffusing me,
            Says I will not depart.

            And I can count the losses of that other self,
            Ignoring the protection of this mortal dawn,
            And rising to the vacant hope and promise
            Of those passing days, intent on my un-making;
            I can let them go, forgive,
            And gain possession,
            So...

            An ocean gone has been reborn,
            Is glowing in a quiet morn
            Beneath an all-abiding sun,
            While every creature moving in the deep
            Effuses 'I am one'.

            When, finally, the endless blue is fading,
            When the yellow burns away,
            And light disintegrates to something without shadows,
            I will be alone and free
            As I am here.
            And I will join the silence without sadness,
            And I will own the darkness without fear--
            As I am one
            And I can feel,
            As I am free
            And I am here.