There Is A Place

By Rev. Cathy Toldi

There is a place

where the crickets and frogs are

louder than that voice

that says you are alone,

where

warm water flows

out of the earth with such

generosity that beings

for thousands of years

have taken refuge there.

Your pain feels this,

and for a moment,

or an hour,

it relaxes its grip,

and you look out and see

the sun on the grass,

the wind in the tree,

your skin is open,

you feel the embrace,

you hear the big bronze bell

calling

your true name.

Tassajara