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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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Voice in the Wind

by Sondra Ball

I heard you call me
through the stormy day
when you rose from sleep,
when you kneeled to pray.

Your pastors and priests
keep telling a lie.
They say I'll save you
from the stormy sky.

But I throw myself
into wind and rain;
and nothing I touch
remains unchanged.

I come from the west;
I come from the east
to share your famines,
to judge your feasts.

I come from the mountains;
I come from the seas
to release your slaves,
and to snare your free.

I bring new visions
and I bring new dreams.
I make sure nothing
becomes what it seems.

I'm full of danger
as I come and go,
for my storms reform
the human soul.

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