Seeking Vision

Seeking vision
Burning herbs
Drumming quickly
Going to underworld to seek a vision
of the unknown.
As I wish I go alone
down to the green depths of jungle
Animals say
I'm no help to you today
as one by one they turn away.
shamans also turn their backs to me,
they will not turn around no matter
if I ask a hundred times.
Mother smiles warmly and says---
go
So I sit in the circle, in the jungle, alone in the quiet
I look at the stars
as I get smaller and smaller Father sky looks down at me
I know he is there
I hear
Father is the key
The sky is dark, the stars brightly shine.
Mother earth comes and touches my hair.
I rise and say goodbye and thank you
As I pass the Shamans I call to them
You are my brothers, I call the light to you.
I cover them in shining golden light.
They turn
They smile
They surround me in a circle and say
We will dance you till you leave.
They dance
My heart lightens and I turn into crow
and fly home.