I was starting my spiritual Journey, but I got lost between the two worlds of listening and hearing.
An Elder told me if I was lost and could't find my path, to use all my senses at one time and in the simplest state of mind, body and spirit.
I was in my fourth stage of life ( 28 years old), trying to grasp the meaning of what the Elder was telling me. I had much respect for him and listened all the time.
So I took a walk beneath a sacred place where my people once lived in harmony with nature, and I thought of what the Elder had told me.
After walking for some time I came upon a small creek and some unknown force of the wind from the East gently flushed down through my body and surrounded me in all seven directions.
It took me a while to understand why this was all happening. I know the seven directions of the sacred pipe, But the most important direction was myself, that I was not humbled or in balance nor in a simple state.
Then I looked up to thank the Creator and a sea gull flew by dropping a sea shell on the bank of the creek, so I took it and put the shell to my ear and I could hear the sound of the ocean .
I asked myself why I had left my ocean home, those ample depths of blue, and up the river I would roam so fully I would rue.
Then I sat on an old fallen birch tree and started hearing the ripples of the creek and birds chirping in the wilderness.
I could smell the Earth around me, looking to the west and the sun's thousands of shades. Then I started to finally smile as the evening grew near.
At the same time I touched the bark of the fallen tree to the North and a vision rushed to my hearts content.
A wigwam , the home of my ancestors...... I could sense their presence, and was once again content with myself.
I glanced my eyes at the stump of the fallen tree to the South and to my surprise I counted seven tiny birch trees growing in the cycle of nature and I then could sense all my relations.
At this time my heart was beating faster and could hear what the Elder was telling me at the closing of the day….
And I understood.
Composed April 7 /2014 Pikto'l Sa'ke'j Muise
