<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 600px; margin-bottom: 15px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="clear: both; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 600px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; background-image: none; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 590px; margin-bottom: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="position: relative; clear: both; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 590px; background-image: none; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; ">The Call</span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 590px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="position: relative; clear: both; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 590px; background-image: none; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; ">I have heard it all my life,</span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">A voice calling a name I recognized as my own.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Sometimes it comes as a soft-bellied whisper.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Sometimes it holds an edge of urgency.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">But always it says: Wake up, my love. You are walking asleep.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">There’s no safety in that!<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Remember what you are, and let a deeper knowing<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">color the shape of your humanness.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">There is no waiting for something to happen,<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">no point in the future to get to.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">All you have ever longed for is here in this moment, right now.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">You are wearing yourself out with all this searching.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Come home and rest.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">How much longer can you live like this?<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Your hungry spirit is gaunt, your heart stumbles. All this trying.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Give it up!<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Let yourself be one of the God-mad,<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">faithful only to the Beauty you are.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Let the Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close,<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">dancing even when fear urges you to sit this one out.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Remember, there is one word you are here to say with your whole being.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">When it finds you, give your life to it. Don’t be tight-lipped and stingy.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "> <br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Spend yourself completely on the saying,<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">Be one word in this great love poem we are writing together.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "><br></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 600px; margin-bottom: 15px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="clear: both; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 600px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; background-image: none; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 590px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="position: relative; clear: both; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 590px; background-image: none; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 600px; margin-bottom: 15px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="clear: both; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 600px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; background-image: none; "><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 590px; margin-bottom: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="position: relative; clear: both; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 590px; background-image: none; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; ">- Oriah Mountain Dreamer</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 600px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="clear: both; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 600px; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; background-image: none; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="width: 590px; margin-bottom: 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="position: relative; clear: both; overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-collapse: separate; width: 590px; background-image: none; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: inherit; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#808080" face="verdana, geneva"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 600px; margin-bottom: 15px; "><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><br></div></div></body></html>