There’s a night full of stars
In my body now,
When I close my eyes
I see constellations all around
And I have all within me,
I have all within me:
The wolf who howls,
The coyote, too,
The juniper who is bursting now
With berries.
I have the rocks, old records
Of the melting minerals of time.
I have hawk and crow
And the lark and the mockingbird
And the finches, and the finches,
And the clouds, oh mist, blowing round,
All of this is in me now.
I have all dances that have been danced
Upon the ground through all of time.
Vibrations never leave the ground,
They travel through all of time.
I have the bugs, the beetles, the worms,
That work all the time to let this earth live,
To let her live.
I have the cottonwood trees
That sleep now and wait for spring,
I have the cottonwood trees
That wait now,
And constellations spinning round
Forming shapes in my mind,
Forming stories out of time.
And I’m the one that gets to decide
What constellations I can find,
Shapes within my random life,
Shapes within my random mind.
I’m the one who gets to decide
What meaning they make
And how they will guide me
Oh, like the butterflies
Who can migrate so far and wide,
Like the moth in the light of the moon,
Like the moth who knows only the moon.