Clud

From deep within my mother I rose,
Fighting for the bright light of the world beyond.
Upon a hillside I was born,
In an instant, perfect and complete.
I saw all that was around me:
The birds in the clear blue sky,
The green forest-covered slopes of my home.

Slowly, carefully, I took my first steps.
A child of wonder, eager to learn.
Onwards I went, travelling this way and that.
Always telling my mother of the things I saw.

Between the heather-covered hills I roamed.
Over many rocky ledges I flew.
Downwards. Onwards.
Sparking like a thousand diamonds
In the light of the bright yellow sun.

Through steep-sided valleys I passed
The branches of trees caressed my Self
The ash and the oak, the yew and the birch
Colours changing, season upon season,
From green to red and back again.

At last I came to a distant plain.
Here I wandered, far form the place of my birth.
And how I had grown,
From child to maiden, in the blink of an eye.

Long I wandered among the tall grasses,
Under the gaze of the Bright One above.
In the heat I slept and dreamed many dreams;
Of beasts and birds who called to me by name.
Of nature I learned in that dreaming place.

Still further I journeyed, seeking some goal.
The whisper of it spoke to me with many voices,
And I travelled now, ever truer to my purpose,
Changed from maiden to mother of many children.
Learning things that, until then, had never been known.

And then I sensed a change in the air.
Some unknown taste came to my lips.
Then I knew I had met the sea
Who had journeyed far inland
With a purpose of her own.

Joyous was our meeting, as sisters we were.
She told me of things she had learned form the winds
And promised to show me lands yet unseen by mortal eyes.
Together we travelled the remaining part of my road.
My goal I had found, journey’s end had been reached

Many voices sang the song of the land
And from afar my mother called out my name.
For the first time since my journey began,
I saw in the song, my own true shape;
A being complete, yet ever-changing.
A ribbon of silver in a land of green.

Vanora