A Crack - Devin Jenkins

[Larry Robinson]

A Crack

Beyond the insular shell

Marking recent existence,

A crack has been made

Where the seed of soul is sprouting,

Opening wide.

There stands

Weeping in recognition

Of what it was unable to see

Imprisoned in a shell

That blocked the light of truth

>From illuminating

The shared sorrows

Of the Great Heart.

It weeps in gratitude

At the hints of a forgotten togetherness,

Weeping of the Original Community

>From which it’s been sheltered

For so long.

There it weeps

In remembrance

Of abandoned kin

Songs never to be heard

that once resonated in all.

Songs sung

By the old growth forests

And rivers

By the Rhinos

And passenger pigeons,

By another indigenous language

Lost each week.

Waters flow once more.

This time

A knowing

That all rivers

Reach the sea,

Where what was

Once forgotten

Is now remembered

And separateness dissolves

Into those streaming waters

Rolling down the cheeks

Of the world

In the direction of the Heart,

Spreading thin and becoming

Part of the song

Where it recognizes that

All tears

Pour

>From the same set of eyes.



	- Devin Jenkins