LET me Be....

LET ME BE A STAR    (Helen Hoyt 1887-1972) (excerpts)

Let me be a star that shines over you.

Let me be a cloud that floats by you

Let me be a mist that rests on the mountain's peak

Do you feel the soft touch of the mist?

I have leaned my head down over you

As the moon leans on the mountain

I have let fall the folds of my hair to cover your head

I have folded my hair about you

as the scarves of a cloud

Winding the brow of the mountain

O mountain I am the follower you called to come,

I am the wanderer and you stayed my footsteps

I saw you from far away, a blue horizon

You called me from desert spaces to the cool of your shadow

As a seed on the wind I was blown, as a bird on spent wings I have come

Now I rest in your sheltering rock

Photographs 2022 Campbell River, B.C.