There’s a great listening going on.
If you listen you can hear it.
Animals hear things we can’t, or won’t.
The trees guard their silence
to hear the soil, hear the wind,
hear every word, especially the unspoken.
When you’re buried earth listens so carefully to you,
to the soft tissues, and everything else.
Orbiting planets aren’t just caught in math,
they’re listening, sun and earth hearing and responding.
The universe holds its ear to your heart.
And there is a great listening among us, us jabbery people,
to the tales and the songs and the cries and the lies.
The sounds settle down in us
where only our bones can hear, but they do.
Beneath the roar and rattle you can hear this porous world
taking it all in, in the desert, yes, the ocean depths,
and even in the city, even in the deaf.
We can stop our ears with earbuds of noise,
or dismiss the jangle, open ourselves,
and join the great listening.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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