I Am Nomad

I am Nomad

I have always seen the river, silver, twisting, spiraling deep and flattening out in an attempt to run it's course - always seeking - always yielding but never giving way to earth's boundaries - it feeds MAN - it gives MAN itself - in the sharing I see love as MAN gathers together at the river's center - it is the dance of life - and I cannot touch it -

I am Nomad

I have always been outside - watching through self imposed impossibilities - I have seen it's purpose but have denied myself, and as a consequence I cannot hear that drumbeat that draws those who seek communion -

I am Nomad

I have sought not accepted it's mother's breath - excluded by my own chains - seeing through rooted beings, I catch a glimpse of that life that draws ALL to it's source and that drumbeat echos faintly, floating gently over the river's heart -

I am Nomad

This faux spirit I have inhabited is weary and is a hollow vessel that cannot drink from this elixir of earth's living breath -

I am Nomad

Standing silent and coursing up and down it's length - I seek an opening --- in quiet acceptance the river's voice slows, and that drumbeat surges and surrounds me, and lifts me, and a song of the river's being enters this sad shell - voices of all those who are one with each other rise from the river's heart and embrace me - tears of love envelope me - I am washed clean - made whole - I enter the river and the drumbeat is my own heart -

I AM NOMAD NO MORE

I am one with the river's life and the life of ALL.


Mike Raymer