Reflections On Ancient Love
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This is a theological reflection on the lyrics to "This Ancient Love" words and music by Carolyn McDade, Copyright by Surtsey Publishing/ 1996, by Carolyn McDade. These are the word choices I hear when speaking and singing Carolyn McDade's beautiful composition. Not experienced, meant, intended as an improvement, update, or correction, but as a Both/And communion of sad sacred gratitude, in preparation for Earth Day, 2022.
Long before sun light
was born from starkness
Long before Earth's dawn
broiled unsteady hot star fire
Long before She filled
Her scarlet mind
with Yang's high hills,
time was this love
This ancient life
reborn.
Long before our trees
greenly filled
Mother's forests
Long before a wind
unsailed to sing
Earth's wholesome songs
Long before She filled
Her turquoise mind
across Her seas,
time rewinds love
This ancient life
health born.
Long before Earth's great chain
of being
forged ecocidal
egosystems
Long before a voice
could speak
divine creation
Long before She filled
Her bleeding womb
to grow a child,
there is Earth's love
This ancient life
wealth torn.
Long before our trust
in love's life
could be broken
Long before our wounds
were nailed upon a Mother Tree
Long before She laid Her body down
under His light
time spins this love
This ancient life
still born.
Wakeful each night
greeting Earth's dawning
Stubborn as green
rebirthing burned
wounded hills
As we fill our healing minds
to hold Earth's timeless time
This ancient love
Her aching life
flows struggling on.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2022
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