Why I Came                (Wide Sky 2010 Campout)

My soul cried out for a place of spaciousness
Uncontaminated by duty or urgency;
A place visited by mid-wives of the unexpected…
A land worthy of fallowness
Where even my oldest tears
Feel welcome.

In a forest safe from progress,
Earth untrammeled by hollow pursuits,
Each clean breath a balm for stubborn wounds;
A climate eager to nurse uncertainties;
An ever-present witness to the mysterious heartbeat
Of our belonging.