Esther's Secret

Esther’s Secret Soft murmurings embrace you – A whisper drawn From yesterday And decades slipped away From another place Still vibrant in long ago – Remembers in the chanting The Ancient Living Voice Of mountaintops; A timeless guardian gently guides Your coming and your going Neither slumbering Nor Sleeping With memories Of chosen brutally carried away Or Buried at a wall still wailing – Still searches for the children lost, Secrets lost, charts of treasures hidden Intertwining; Sighing for a way of life Almost forgotten, speaking in enigmas, Echoing in the song of a harp Rustling through foreign willow trees Somehow afraid a mother’s hands Forgets to mark the day of rest With candles and with Psalms; In your dreams it shudders, Knowing the deep chambers In the hearts of cunning men To forever still the guardian hearts Of the Covenant, spoken over chaos’ waters; Welcoming your prayers in sack cloth Bidding you rise early – dress in silk - Then speak your restless secret with urgency Releasing it from prison walls Where you chained it – safe from traitor’s ears – No more the voiceless mute The Ancient Voice speaks courage for you To save the bearers of the Ark -you from a banished life - Eternal vow unbroken When Moriah calls her children home With an ancient voice.