Drum

Do you feel a pulse throughout the world?

A beat, that surges through your ears and blood?

That wraps you in its effervescent mood,

and leaves you tingling with a dream unfurled?

(The breezes whisper in a hidden rhythm,

Compound a listener fastly to their cause,

Then leave him without question or a pause,

Half-laughing, half-acry at fickle whims.)

 

Don't cry - the beat is yours, you are the beat.

(God-manifest, hold to the 'pointed task.)

And listen to the words it claims within,

Now loud, now soft, now cool, now haste in heat.

The why is yours; the when (beyond your grasp)

Is still responding to this touch of Him.

© John McNeil. All rights reserved.
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