YOU WHO WOULD BE WISE

Ran across this poem in a book called EARTH MEDICINE. In Native American teaching the word medicine refers to wisdom. So wisdom from the earth.

LOOK TO THE EARTH

 

Look to the Earth

And to the Skies

The Sun, the Moon, and to the stars

You who would be wise.

For they contain the full measure of man

The height, the breadth, the depth, the span

Of his entirety.

 

Look to the Earth

And to the Skies

And watch them turn

Like pages of a holy book

But one untouched by human hand.

You who would be wise.

 

Look to Earth

And to the Skies

For in that which can be seen Without

Can true knowledge come

Of unseen mysteries that lie Within

To you who would be wise.

 

Look to the Earth

And to the Skies

Spring and Summer,

Winter and in the Fall.

Watch life begin, unfold, then fade and die

To rise anew

Time and again for Time Untold

You who would be wise.

 

Look to the Earth

and to the Skies

And in your looking, learn this mystery

That you who look to the Earth

And to the Skies

Shall be given eyes to see

Shall be given eyes

To make you wise

Eternally.

 

by Kenneth Meadows