Cloud Hidden - David Whyte

[Lawrence Robinson]

Cloud Hidden

This chapter is closed now,
not one word more
until we meet some day
and the voices rising 
to the window
take wing and fly.

Open the old casement
to the lands we have forgotten,
look
to the mountains and ridgeways
and the steep valleys,
quilted by green,
here, as the last words fall away,
the great and silent rivers of life
are flowing into the oceans 
and on a day like any other
they will carry you again,
abandoned,
on the currents you have fought,
to the place
you did not know
you belonged.

And just as you came into life, surprised,
you go out again, cloud hidden
from one unknown to another
and turn and fall and appear
again in the mountains,
not remembering how, in the beginning,
you refused to join.
could not speak of,
did not even know,
that you were that calm
deep, almost forgotten
spring of eternal presence.


	- David Whyte