The Boots, A Song, The Tree and Synchronicity

The wisdom of the ages

‘comes through’ to my pages

and the guidance is as true

as my leap of faith……….

all is well in the world

as all is well in my heart,

I’m walking the path

I’m walking along

and my heart melody

is a pure simple song.

All along in recent years

I create new healing

by releasing old fears.

I ask for guidance, blessings

and signs to see,

so messages coming

are received by me.

So I pray in every new day

I am heartened by all

that paints images for me,

I ask the question

before the answers I see…..

This story begins nine years ago,

when as a Christmas gift

you gave to me

the Grevillea Silky-Oak Tree.

They grow in Queensland

but don’t like the cold,

so I planted it by the winter pond

and it didn’t grow much,

it didn’t respond…..

Then you left me and went far away

and years later I shifted

from that country spot

and dug up ‘our tree’, to take with me,

in a magnificent pot!

Too tall for small gardens

and I could never it’s true

leave it behind

when to me it was you!!!

So I placed it by my window

every day of every year

and it grew to be,

taller than, the rooftops I see.

And over all of the years

you kept returning to me,

and just a few months before

your spirit flew free,

you requested new boots

as a gift from me.

As ever, we walked in the bush,

our favorite song came from whip-birds

and a sweeter song

would never be heard….

One day, I was missing my friend

who ‘has gone from this earth’,

and thinking of him

and those Mack boots left behind,

when I heard a new song

I’d love to re-wind.

The ballad was heartfelt,

from the very first line,

sung by a country singer

in slow waltzing-time. --------

She said “I’ve nothing of yours

to remember you by

except for one shoe”….

and there were tears in my eyes!!

My goodness, a sign if ever there was

that hearts reach across from the other side

to bring cheer and warmth,

there is no divide.

I looked at your new boots

you only wore for a few weeks,

then with your passing

my sadness felt lasting.

And all of the years,

through all of my tears

show me, it is true

you are closer now

than you ever were,

and I am healing within

everyday with new signs,

I am heartened for sure

so keep looking for more.

The following day, was the day, was the one,

when our Chinese Proverb

came true for a second time.

“Keep a green tree in your heart perhaps a singing bird will come…”

So we live with this wisdom

more than twenty years

and it takes your dying

to present to the tree

living birds for me to see!!!

Soon after your passing,

in the Silky-Oak Tree

in a planter pot by the window

you came to be…..

Previously, you wrote on-line

your password defined

‘Blue-wren’ was your call-sign

as birds called to you,

so there in my Silky-Oak

through the window I see

a blue wren, and hen

with a greeting for me!!

Oh Joy! I was heartened,

Oh heart I am free,

I let go of the pain

that has been crippling me…..

Then on a Sunday morning,

the day after ‘the shoe song’,

I go into my room

and am delighted to see

the Western Whip-bird just sitting

in our Silky-Oak Tree!

(I wrote this on October 2, 2011 whilst sitting with THE Mack leather boots)