Shadow Dancing

In the end, I finally found the strength to gamble on this song. I did this slowly, beginning to trust its resonance and frequency because it came to me in my dreams at night, and echoes from starlight and from the flames in the fireplace, in the leaves floating to the forest floor and in the river. It came to me like echoes from many lifetimes, like something deeper and more powerful than I had ever suspected. It came to me in stories from the Bible, about tongues of flame and shapeshifting divine beings, in ancient Hebrew poetry and political drama tableaus, in revisiting Eden and the exile which followed. In the end, it was the Biblical witness speaking in harmony with the created order and my own beating heart which formed the narrow trail that I began to walk on.