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Song of Three Nights
by Duncan Smart
I was screaming, and the scream filled all the air and then froze
And in its frozen time I lay slit open
Watching myself from within myself
And around me, within me, beyond me,
She was
Knotting, sewing, staring, singing
Her form slipped and twisted in my awareness
Sometimes she was a young girl kicking up rainbows from bright water
Sometimes she swam with the otter and her hair filled with gold
Sometimes she was the slow breath within a rock
Always she was older than time
And her eyes never blinked or changed
Fierceness without anger
Determination without will
She wove in me
And into her weaving she sang spells
"I teach you nothing
All is within you
I show you your shape
Nothing more
Do you dare to know your own shape?
Do you dare to sing your own song?
Do you dare to live?"
My answer was a ripple under my opened skin
A sob in my scream
She went on.
"One brings freedom
Flight - ferocious life.
When it flares in you
You will transcend fear
Its flame is the light by which you see
You and no one else.
Hangi © Óðindís 1999
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