I woke up in the middle of the night with a song echoing in my mind.
I shaped it in the dark, then went back to sleep as the sun began to rise.
I received a clear message from the unconscious:
“Finish it now, before something else pulls you away and you forget.”
The unconscious asked not only for words, but for voice,
to give it breath and to offer it as a song.
So I’m sharing it with you.
All paintings in this video are by Gustav Klimt, one of the artists I hold dearest.
Lyrics:
If I could hold both sides at once~
Grief endured~
This pain might birth a glance.
Walking the longest path,
Healing an ancient wrath.
If I could hold both light and dark~
A gift from you~
To build a timeless ark.
Descending in a sacred dance,
Emerging from a primal mass.
It’s you and I
Through all that lives and dies.
A human cry,
A wholeness in disguise.
