There is a ring of lights that encompasses the world and of this we are a part There is a ring of lights that begins with these nights but there is no end until it has travelled beyond the eye beyond this land to the other face of a sleeping planet and back to our own arms once again There are songs that have lived for so many years and the stories they tell are true They are taken from lives born and gone from hands that have touched ours and never let go from dreams that were real for magic once lived upon this earth and the songs tell us this still For there is a ring of lights around the world and they burn and they always will The songs have taught us as together we sang but there is a new voice that begins from below and it rises seeming confusion until we see that there is both pain and joy in one note one throat and the power of the song is rich with this source for within our suffering emerges joy to the top of the chest to the lips that open to the flame of the candle that is lit again and rises to the next and the next For there is a ring of lights that surrounds the world and it burns as we hold it hand to hand higher and higher for the new voice commands us to
Do you feel the sorrow asks the wise man of the child? Do you feel the joy asks the child of the man? And here is the miracle that we hold each one of us within One and the same our pain burns brighter until the shape of the flame becomes our joy and our heart opens in the same place it once was broken and love is found as huge as the voices that have sung the songs around and around over and over in truth Each of us has known the gift of a child born and growing still We bear our own little one that small Self birthed and held in our heart Out of darkness he comes out of nothingness she rises and there is no magic greater We are asked only to love one child our own mother’s child and this is the Peace this is the wonder that may be shared beyond language beyond fear beyond the pain of old for each of us is a miracle is a light and there is a ring of lights around the world as wide as the world and as far as our growing knowing eyes can see It is the blessing of love made alive made of flame as we awaken in the soul and reach out from this safety to touch the one standing near the one standing next and the ones that follow the ring of lights surrounding our world on into the night It burns as never before A new voice a new joy has come
much love, Adi
THE RING OF LIGHTS