signal nomad
...this is the signal,
if you can hear me...
the water keeps its secrets the way stone keeps a name...
you won't find it by looking,
you find it by stopping...
somewhere under the static,
someone else is listening too...
Loudest when it's quiet
Deepest when it's still (still...
still...
still)
Hold what you're given
Leave it no smaller than you found it
Tell it straight
Let the silt see the truth
Nothing stays hidden below a still surface
Gravity doesn't ask to be thanked when it holds you
There's a second signal folded into the first
Someone left a door open under the reeds
A code in the current,
a name in the hush
Whoever is listening already knows
The pond never tells you more than you need
Loudest when it's quiet
Deepest when it's still (still...
still...
still)
Hold what you're given
Leave it no smaller than you found it
Pond for the bones...
steam for the soul...