I am walking on the trail. There is a river frozen in me and by my side. I bend my head for the branch’s that brush my toque. I sink into the sound of crunching snow, friction on the wires of my earbuds and a song rolling through my emotions. I have my eyes focused on the stark, yet hopeful black shadows that the trees cut into the sky.

A large Raven sits at the top of a denuded birch. Its outline cutting through the evening light. As I walk closer to the tree it is perched on I realise that it is watching me with a rapt gaze. My head tilts as I pass by the birch and I turn back to see it gliding down to swoop in on my chest. I stand in shock and awe as it reaches into my chest with its beak and lifts out my heart on a chain.

I fall back into the snow as it flaps up into the sky. It takes a tour of the stars and I see this all as it makes its way through the black/blue of the crystal clear evening sky. I feel the constellations in my beating heart and the warmth of a billion stars floods into it as Raven takes my Love to new and all encompassing heights.

What is this journey of rapture compared with my earthly presence, I wonder ? Then I see the Raven descending to drop my heart back into place. It croaks and I hear “We all have this Light inside, it is just finding it through the way that we live and what we allow into our selves. Allow the world to come and roost in you. You will want no longer”.

I get to my feet and walk on as I flow into the one reality. I am the world and It is me.