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Give Me Courage

Where did you go, brother crow?
You express the melancholy of my thoughts
          and carry it away in the wind
                    so I can go on
                              without the heavy burden of sadness.
Come, brother, come back,
for without you
          I shoulder the whole burden and drown
                    in the quagmire
                              of my misery.

The skies weep for me.
They weep for all the suffering in the creation.
And in that weeping I am comforted.

Blow, ye winds,
          and blow again,
for the dust is heavy
that conceals the treasures
          buried in my mind.
For centuries and centuries they have lain hidden
          protected by my fear
                    of what may be revealed
                              when the familiar cobwebs are gone.

Heavens,
give me courage
to BE!