Friends, find now in this present moment, what in your own heart glows and goes forth
what there within your own chest holds steady the precious liquid in the cup of love
where the peace of a dove is all you've ever known
in you a sun child is born and says imagine a world, a fearless world,
a kingdom where you are perfectly free
in love there need be no law
In your charge is the great work of winter
to cultivate a silence
a serious and perfect stillness
where the whole earth of you can rest so deep
dissolving in this precious death
the gateway where again you smell the forest floor
you feel the watery chill
and finally, you thaw,you bend, you breathe