Beyond The Veil Poem by Lynn Anne Brown

Warriors, Protectors, Guardians! ! !
Ladies and Lords
Of the Elder Race
Queens, Kings and Heroes
Sage, Mage and Elder Wit
Are Welcome here
Goddesses and Gods
Ancient Spirits
And Fairy Folk
Abound
For those
Whose Hearts are Open
And whose Minds
Are Flexible
Are Welcome Here
At this celebration
Of Life and Death
The Veil is Opening
You get a glimpse
Beyond the Curtain
Enough to Know
What you wanted
To take with you
When you go

Today
We a gathered here
Because we know
The Land
Has Welcomed Us
It is glad
That we chose
To become
Her Keepers
She knows
That we will do our best
To help take care of her
And one another

She want us
To understand
The reasons
That we are her for
The opportunity
To help shape
Reality
She wants
To get along
With human beings
She likes to hear us sing
But she doesn't really like
The fighting and the Arguments
And so we promised not to fight
Unless we had to
And so we keep the peace
Unless our boundaries are threatened
As we blend the best
Of Past and Present
Into a place
That we like living
And she likes living with us

And we are Northerners
Our Winters lie deep and heavy on us
Prepare or die
Whispers Boreas
As he whistles in the Fall
Are we ready yet
For the long nights
Sleep

And to the Bear
We answer yes
We've gathered a lot this year
And with each others help
We have gathered more
Than we could have gathered
On our own
And for that
We come to celebrate
With the land
And one another

Am I ready yet
To see the face behind the veil
To know what I am destined for
Or am I content
To take
Journey
As it comes
All I truly know
Is that I like to see
The signs along the road
Easier to read the story
As it goes
Than jumping
To the end

And when the curtain parts
I see a mirror
I see a thousand mirrors
And in them a thousand more
And still a thousand more in them
Each reflecting one another
Into infinity
Beyond the measure
I can count
And I know
I've seen
The best in all of them
And they have seen
The best in me
And I know
That I'll live up to it
Because, I have faith in me
And those who gather round me
That we will make the best
Of what we have

And when the curtain closes
And the mirrors fade
Back to sun and stars and moons
Land and sea and sky
To woman, man and child
We remember
Just a little bit more
Of who we want to be
And how we really are