The World Tree - VII. Axis Mundi

O arbor magnae telluris,

Axis mundi, nulla talis

silva produxit,

florem, folium, florem tibi.

Rami tui, o arbor alta,

nostram memoriam revocasti;

Amores nostri et somnia,

Spes, metus ac vota

O Arbor Mundi, Axis Mundi,

Dignus es solus

Parare portum

mundo naufrago.

Out of absence, presence

Out of nothing, something ––

Each seed a world-in-waiting ––

wildwood galaxy

Planting an act of making ––

genesis cosmogony

Where once the Gap held empty air

Now stands a World Tree ––

Axis Mundi

This World Tree rooted in the Sun

Has seen man’s inhumanity

To man; seen malady, kindness, tragedy

Shines forth with blazing clarity ––

branches canopy

Glows red at dawn and blue in frost

alchemy radiancy

O World Tree, Axis Mundi ––

Flourishing in the windswept Gap

stubbornly defiantly

Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer,

We rose to meet your mystery.

We spoke of you

You companioned us

We rested in your shade,

You sheltered us

We stopped for you

You remembered us

We knew with you

You steadied us

We took you to heart

You healed us

We grew with you

You rooted us

We loved you

We loved you

We gloried in your thisness,

We shone within your suchness,

We dreamed of your greenness —

At last we felled you,

At last we felled you.