Unbroken Light

#UpliftingMedia #HealDivisions #NurtureEmpathy Unbroken Light [verse] Golden eagle feathers tremble in dawn's first breath Catching fire as they dance with the waking east wind's step Grandmother moon's silver voice weaves through pine-needle threads Singing to the unborn dreams in our hearts' soft beds This world may bend my back like the river's old willow bow But my roots drink deep where the sacred waters flow [chorus] For I carry the sacred fire's glow A thousand generations burn in this ember's slow glow In the sweat lodge's trembling steam, our truths unfold Like winter stars reflected in the obsidian mirror's hold We are broken clay jars holding the Milky Way's light Tending the unbroken flame through the longest night [verse] Buffalo dust rises in spirals from the red road's skin Becoming constellations in the night's outstretched palm Turtle's cracked shell maps the wanderings of forgotten clans Each line a river of memory in time's shifting sands Corn mother's green laughter rustles through August's heat While squash blossoms cradle the promise of bread to eat [chorus] Still I carry the sacred fire's glow Through blizzards that howl like the lost spirits' woe In the medicine wheel's turning, the four winds show How snow becomes rain becomes river's flow We are fallen leaves returning to the great tree's bough Weaving the unbroken light through each here and now [bridge] Not in the thunder's sharp knife But in the space between drumbeats where silence is alive Where seven directions breathe through the hollow bone's sigh Cedar smoke carries our names to where the sky meets the sky "Child remember" echoes in the clay at your feet Formed from comet dust and the first dawn's heartbeat [chorus] Now I carry the sacred fire's glow Through cities of glass and fields where the wild grapes grow In the storyteller's wrinkles, the constellations slow Their dance to whisper what the ancestors know We are the dream the mountain has of the sea Holding the unbroken light until all spirits are free [outro] Unbroken light In the deer's last breath and the salmon's homeward flight In the loom's warp and weft where the dark meets the bright We rise We rise The first spark still burns In every ember that remembers In every step that returns #HumanSpirit #ConstructiveDialogue #HopeAndUnity #PurposefulEngagement #RippleEffect #CommunityHealing #SocialChange #Compassion #Kindness #musicvideo