The Chants Call Me

Voices swirl inside out
Tone and timbre chants
Vibrations flow, then ebb
Across the ether

My heart stretches and soars
As gently my mind’s eye opens
And freely my thoughts loosen
Silent, I begin to remember

The sound carries my soul
Gentle in its undulating waves
To a time without time
To a place without space
Where it seems all at once
We all knew an endless grace

My beating heart changes rhythm as the sensations reverberate
I listen to the mysteriously haunting chants
And I remember that I know of this calling
This experience, this moment, this feeling
This life inside the whispers

Each breath, each syllable
Each word, each sound
These tones, they tell me I am home
In an unfamiliar place

So here I sit on earth inside the sound waves only I can feel
Knowing the quest is to find and revere the invisible
I sit so very alone amongst the billions on this planet
Seeking a way, for reasons unclear

Gregorian chants in perfect pitch
Byzantine prayers in perfect rhyme
Russian orthodox chants and church bells
These ancient spirits remind me
From whence we came and to which we shall perhaps one day return

Echoes bounce off the cobbled stone walls
As visions of resplendent vision replace the here and now
And I remember why I remember
Inside the whispers

Stained glass shimmers in the fading daylight
Echoing intonations guide God’s children through the cosmic dust
And I remember why I remember

As the collective melodious sounds fill the void
Each crescendo delivers a new dimension
The focus shifting within lifts my soul higher
Til the energy rises in lustrous chakra transformation

And I remember that I remember

A roaring hush that once filled the cold dark desert
A relentless wind rushed like a perfectly broken metronome
Leaving only barren cold in its wake as the descent into conscious miasma approached

Silence intensified, as the gusts grew
Ushering in utter darkness and biting cold
Off in the distance, coyotes howled
Announcing their dominance in the black arid land

It seems we have been sent to this cold dark place
To look to the heavens
To find song in our hearts
Love in our souls and vision in our heads
To appear from within the black hole that is without

And I remember that I remember
This other worldly sense of love from whence we came

Voices swirl
As I dissolve into One
Here
On earth
Into The Now