Demeter Sings: Growing Moon                      

O mothers everywhere! 

Grasp the torch and search,

though your strength fails!

Call more loudly to the depths of silence,

that somehow the new shall rise again

from the ashes of this sorrow.

O daughters! 

Find strength to put aside

the playthings of this death,

this pale illusion.

Listen deep within the caverns of your hearts

to the echoing cries of Mother Earth.

To hear that cry is to arise

to meet the challenge of renewal!

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018